7 posts tagged with "ruby-on-rails"

How weʼre extending Discourse with two plugins and a custom theme to build Wiblio, an open source social platform for the communities meeting at Berlinʼs public libraries.

We moved the test suite of a large legacy Rails app from Selenium to Cuprite and celebrate its reliability since then.

Learn how we managed to reduce large PDF files render time from minutes to a few seconds in Rails.

On a recent client project, redesigning a large Rails app, we found ourselves having to get Rails, Hotwire's Turbo and React on Rails to play together nicely. Each of the tools comes with its own amounts of magic™, so integrating them turned out to be a bit of a juggle.

Privatizing the constructor methods of callable services in Ruby on Rails for cleaner APIs and tests.

How to take back control over caching with Rails' Active Storage and Amazon S3.

Summary​

On 2019-08-02 we at bitcrowd discovered a security vulnerability in simple_form. simple_form is one of the go-to ways to easily handle HTML forms in Ruby on Rails. The security issue allows arbitrary code execution in the worst case, but at least has potential for data corruption or DOS attacks. This security issue was responsibly disclosed by bitcrowd. Find details about the timeline of the events and a more detailed description below.