CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/ch1b 33 jy

Software security in Ruby on Rails web applications using Brakeman scanner

Introduction

Brakeman is an open source vulnerability scanner specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It statically analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at any stage of development.<ref name=github>[1]</ref> Lift borrows fro Brakeman scans your application by looking at your source code, which means it is not necessary to set up your application stack to use it. Once the scan is complete, Brakeman displays a list of all security issues that were found.