Ruby on Rails Archives - Mohamed Sami

How to protect rails application from suspicious and abuse attacks?

August 9, 2019August 16, 2019Mohamed Sami

Introduction

Many of DevOps teams are suffering from different attacks from people around the world who are trying to hack your website, compromise any information, robot sign up, send robots email, visit non-existing URLs.

These attacks if did not harm your application, it will increase the load on your environment and consume even the resources in not a good way. So, these attacks have to be prevented and blocked. In this article, we will discuss how to protect your ruby on rails app from suspicious and abuse attacks using simple methods which act as web application firewall (WAF) without the need to use and pay for external security services or WAF services.

Rails is a web application development framework written in the Ruby programming language that has been introduced at 2003. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks.

Ruby on Rails is one of the popular framework built on Model View Controller (MVC) architecture pattern and has a large developer community which made it robust and easy to get support.

Rails task for automated testing preparation and execution

June 5, 2017August 11, 2018Mohamed Sami

Ruby on Rails framework has great automated testing tools for unit, integration testing and others as well. this post will not discuss these tools, you should be familiar with them already.

I’m sharing here a task to help you prepare your test environment and run Rspec task without the need to run every command to run your test

Database views for Rails performance optimization

May 27, 2017August 11, 2018Mohamed Sami

Rails Framework is one of the greatest supporters for Rapid Application Development (RAD) which tends to abstract and simplify the web architecture so that Rails abstracts away the database through the Active Record which is the Object-relational mapping (ORM) for rails.

The Active Record is the layer of the system responsible for representing business data and logic. Active Record facilitates the creation and use of business objects whose data requires persistent storage to a database.

So, It helps in a way to manage all relations consistency and mapping in the class model without the need to write SQL statement to retrieve any data or the usage of CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) methods in general. Read more →

Countries and Industries array

January 24, 2016July 10, 2018Mohamed Sami

Many software developers actually need some standard ready-made lists to be used in their applications, some of these lists are Industries and countries.

I added here an array list of standard industries categories and an array list of countries names.

I hope this will help 🙂 Read more →

Most used rails commands with database

August 1, 2014July 10, 2018Mohamed Sami

This is a new post for ruby on rails developers, it is about most used databases commands you will need during development and testing Read more →