railsgoat
Reek
| railsgoat | Reek | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 | |
| 854 | 3,980 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.1 | |
| 3 months ago | 24 days ago | |
| HTML | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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railsgoat
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How to Safely Deserialize Data in Ruby on Rails
In this example, we’ll analyze the runtime behavior of the OWASP Railsgoat project, which is a vulnerable Ruby on Rails application. This project demonstrates the OWASP Top-10 and is a great project for educating developers and security teams.
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Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
As with the other articles, RailsGoat will be used to explore some aspects of these threats in practice. If you're new here, please refer to the previous two articles to get the app set up and get acquainted with what we’ve explored so far. Let's jump right in!
Reek
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Rubycritic uses reek under the hood so I added a reek config files at .reek.yml with the following content:
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Code Reviewing a Ruby on Rails application.
Reek is a code smell detection tool for Ruby that helps identify potential design issues. It analyzes your codebase and provides feedback on areas that might benefit from refactoring or improvement. Here's an overview of what Reek is and how to use it:
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Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
$ reek app/controllers/erp/orders_controller.rb Inspecting 1 file(s): S app/controllers/erp/orders_controller.rb -- 1 warning: [91]:UncommunicativeVariableName: Erp::OrdersController#create has the variable name 'e' [https://github.com/troessner/reek/blob/v6.1.1/docs/Uncommunicative-Variable-Name.md]
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Gems that can identify churn, complexity, duplication and smells.
reek
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Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
Other useful gems you may take a look at are dawnscanner, reek, and hakiri_toolbelt.
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The best way to review my code for code smells?
Beside RuboCop, I found reek very useful. https://github.com/troessner/reek
What are some alternatives?
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide. [Moved to: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop]
rails-viewcomponent-rspec-tailwind - Confidently develop Rails app views with reusable components.
Flay - Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored.
dawnscanner - Dawn is a static analysis security scanner for ruby written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks.
rails_best_practices - a code metric tool for rails projects
kickoff_tailwind - A rapid Rails 7 application template for personal use bundled with Tailwind CSS
Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter
administration-zero - An administration system generator for Rails applications.
Flog - Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.
protected_attributes - Protect attributes from mass-assignment in ActiveRecord models.