Rack::Attack VS Rack::Protection

Compare Rack::Attack vs Rack::Protection and see what are their differences.

Rack::Attack

Rack middleware for blocking & throttling (by rack)

Rack::Protection

NOTE: This project has been merged upstream to sinatra/sinatra (by sinatra)
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Rack::Attack Rack::Protection
13 0
5,467 830
0.5% -
7.1 0.0
19 days ago about 6 years ago
Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Rack::Attack

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rack::Attack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

Rack::Protection

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rack::Protection. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Rack::Protection yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rack::Attack and Rack::Protection you can also consider the following projects:

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

SecureHeaders - Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults

rspec-rails - RSpec for Rails 6+

Rack::UTF8Sanitizer - Rack::UTF8Sanitizer is a Rack middleware which cleans up invalid UTF8 characters in request URI and headers.

BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project

rack-throttle - Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.

Gitrob - Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations

Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Clamby - ClamAV interface to your Ruby on Rails project.

view_component - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.