Hackers Love Mass Assignment
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 20 May 07

Your site may be at risk! When using mass assignment, you are giving the user complete control over that model and its associations. See how a hacker might use this vulnerability and learn how to stop it in this episode.

Super Simple Authentication
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 20 May 07

The final piece of the administration puzzle: authentication. There are many different approaches which is why I saved this step for last. This episode will cover a few techniques including the simple solution used for this site

Restricting Access
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 20 May 07

In this second part of the series on administration, you will learn how to lock down the site to keep the public from accessing the administration features

How to use OpenID
Category: Web Development > Plugin      Posted: 07 May 07

OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action.