Keep your project in shape
LA-CONF 2013 talk http://2013.la-conf.org/ Developers always focus on their code, and almost never on the eco-system around their app. Dependencies can quickly make an app vulnerable, because new security holes are discovered every day. As we can't read all libraries code we're using in our project, it's kind of hard to determine what side effects could be introduced by using this or this package. Last but not least, APIs evolve, and so are packages. Sometimes APIs versions are deprecated, and if you don't pay attention to that, your app could stop working one day without notice. Ever worse, some packages can simply stop being maintained, leaving no choice then implementing a new one. That's why it's important to keep your projects in shape, the longer you wait to make it up-to-date, the harder it will be. There are some tools out there to achieve this, that every developer should know about: gemnasium (dependencies monitoring, and security alerts on them) rubytoolbox (alternatives) brakeman (security scanner)
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Keep your project in shape
- 1. Keep your project in shape LA-CONF 2013 Philippe Lafoucrière @plafoucriere
- 2. I KNOW YOUR PROJECT
- 3. Project cycle of life •Fun •Exciting •Fresh BORN •Outdated •Missing features •Insecure LIVE •Kill it! •Start over DIE Pictures stollen from: https://peepcode.com/products/play-by-play-aaroncorey I’m sorry
- 5. KEEP IT IN SHAPE!
- 6. Your Daily Training: Reading Newsletters Commits News site Changelogs Twitter (?) …
- 7. Tools
- 9. Gemnasium Monitors your projects dependencies Warns you about outdated gems Sends security alerts on your projects Changelog viewer Decision helper about upgrading (coming soon) Free for public projects
- 11. The Ruby Toolbox Find alternatives for your deprecated gems The right gem for the job Lots of data Free!
- 13. Brakeman scanner Scans your [rails app] code and reports security issues Run it every week/month! Lots of known vulnerabilities Your code is secure until it’s not anymore Free and open-source
- 14. THANK YOU!
- 15. TOP 100 most downloaded gems 65% 19% 13% 2% Changelog Valid Outdated No Changelog Invalid No source Source: http://goo.gl/qozgh (shared gdocs)
- 16. Links Tools presented https://gemnasium.com https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ http://brakemanscanner.org/ Other useful tools https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu/ https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov http://travis-ci.org/ About me https://github.com/gravis https://twitter.com/plafoucriere