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Mass Assignment, Rails, and You

By Arun Srinivasan Early in 2012, a developer, named Egor Homakov, took advantage of a security hole at Github (a Rails app) to gain commit access to the Rails project. His intent was mostly to point out a common security issue with many Rails apps that results from a feature, known as mass assignment (and […]

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Real Time Chat With NodeJS, Socket.io and ExpressJS

By Krasimir Tsonev NodeJS gives me the ability to write back-end code in one of my favorite languages: JavaScript. It’s the perfect technology for building real time applications. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a web chat application, using ExpressJS and Socket.io.   Setup Environment Of course, the first thing to do […]