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Rack::Attack
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Rails Authentication for Compliance
The first line of defense should be to put rate-limiting on your login endpoints. rack-attack can help with that. I recommend to limit the login attempts to 5 per minute for a username and block the IP for 30 minutes. You should also limit the number of login attempts from the same IP address, but this needs to be adjusted to the application you are working on, because if it is a tool used in classrooms, it might be legit to have 50 logins within a few minutes from the same IP. (I have a few post written about rack-attack)
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4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
Rack::Attack
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- rack/rack-attack: Rack middleware for blocking & throttling
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Rack-attack gem setup to protect Rails and Rack apps from bad clients
Rack middleware for blocking & throttling abusive requests. Protect your Rails and Rack apps from bad clients. Rack::Attack lets you quickly decide when to allow, block, and throttle based on the properties of the request. Using this gem you can save your web application from attacks, we can whitelist IPs, Block requests according to requirements, and many more… Install Rack-attack gem: # In your Gemfile gem 'rack-attack' Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Plugging into the application Then tell your ruby web application to use rack-attack as a middleware. # config/application.rb # rack attack middleware config.middleware.use Rack::Attack Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to configure it. You can do this by creating the file, config/initializers/rack-attack.rband adding the rules to fit your needs. You can disable it permanently (like for a specific environment) or temporarily (can be helpful for specific test cases) by writing: Usage Safe listing Safelists have the most precedence, so any request matching a safelist would be allowed despite matching any number of blocklists or throttles. safelist_ip(ip_address_string) Rack::Attack.safelist_ip(“5.6.7.8”) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode safelist_ip(ip_subnet_string) Rack::Attack.safelist_ip(“5.6.7.0/24”) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode safelist(name, &block) Name your custom safelist and make your ruby-block argument return a truthy value if you want the request to be allowed, and false otherwise. Blocking blocklist_ip(ip_address_string) Rack::Attack.blocklist_ip(“1.2.3.4”) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode blocklist_ip(ip_subnet_string) Rack::Attack.blocklist_ip(“1.2.0.0/16”) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode blocklist(name, &block) Name your custom blocklist and make your ruby-block argument return a truthy value if you want the request to be blocked, and false otherwise. Throttling *throttle(name, options, &block) *( provide limit and period as options) Throttle state is stored in a configurable cache (which defaults to Rails.cache if present). Name your custom throttle, provide limit and period as options, and make your ruby-block argument return the discriminator. This discriminator is how you tell rack-attack whether you’re limiting per IP address, per user email, or any other. For example, if we want to restrict requests other than defined routes and display a custom error page. Error page: If we want to restrict requests/IP and if the request limit increases then send a reminder mail. For Example, we want to allow only 300 requests per 30 seconds after that will restrict requests from this IP till the next 30 seconds interval starting. Get error mail if the limit is extended. Performance The overhead of running Rack::Attack is typically negligible (a few milliseconds per request), but it depends on how many checks you’ve configured, and how long they take. Throttles usually require a network roundtrip to your cache server(s), so try to keep the number of throttle checks per request low. If a request is blocklisted or throttled, the response is a very simple Rack response. A single typical ruby web server thread can block several hundred requests per second. Sample rack-attack.rb file For more information: https://github.com/rack/rack-attack If this guide has been helpful to you and your team please share it with others!
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Limiting the amount of calls user can make to an api
Second vote for rack-attack!
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Devise and email spam?
You could use something like Rack Attack to mitigate this type of behavior if it becomes an issue.
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10 things I add to every Rails app
The final gem I like to include in all projects is rack-attack. This is a rate limiting tool which is great for throttling dangerous actions in your app to prevent bot attacks or other malicious users.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
rack-attack to prevent bruteforce and DDoS attacks
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How to prevent scraping/copying data?
Check out Rack Attack. It lets you block bots that make requests too fast to be real users, or that request obviously-suspect URLs (/phpmyadmin for example). There are lots of other options, but those are the quick wins IMO.
FriendlyId
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Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers
On a side note, "Sqids ... is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers.", "The main use of Sqids is purely visual."
If the purpose of it is to give a friendlier url / id, who not use something like friendly_id instead? (http://norman.github.io/friendly_id).
The url is readable and searchable through the history.
I would much rather prefer people using "www.website.com/channel/video/a-dog-walking" instead of "www.website.com/channel/video/3cXv8c".
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How to ensure params are correct in URL after deleting a record?
Take a look at https://github.com/norman/friendly_id for a good gem to implement them.
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replacing id with slug in routes.rb
Check out the friendly_id gem! I remember watching a GoRails video about it and thinking it looked super easy to implement.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
SEO tools - meta-tags, sitemap_generator and friendly_id
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Devise Profile Usernames
friendly_id - We will use the friendly_id gem, which created slugs that we can map to a predetermined route. This is a method you can use throughout an application, not just with the User models.
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26 most popular Ruby/Rails repositories on GitHub in July-August 2020
FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models. 5,500 stars by now
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