Dynamic Keys for Strongbox
Previously, Strongbox, my gem for using Public Key Encryption with ActiveRecord, allowed only one key pair for encrypting all of the records for a given Acti...
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Introducing Strongbox
Over a year ago I wrote the wildly popular Encrypting Lots of Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails). At the end I said: Clearly, this screams for a plugin; w...
Dealing with read-only fields and partial updates in Rails 1.x
So, you have a column in your database you can’t update after the record is created. Not don’t want to update, but can’t. Specifically, you might have a c...
Quick and Dirty cropping images with attachment_fu
Rick Olson’s attachment_fu is a great plugin for attaching files documents to Rails models. It’s a rewrite of his acts_as_attachment plugin. While it can h...