Comments on: Open Source Rails projects, make sure you’re safe… http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2008/09/27/open-source-rails-projects-make-sure-youre-safe/ Wizardry through open source Mon, 02 May 2011 17:05:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Trevor Turk http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2008/09/27/open-source-rails-projects-make-sure-youre-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Trevor Turk Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:28:41 +0000 http://www.opensourcery.co.za/?p=108#comment-96 I'm not that happy with the database.yml solution either. I'm of the opinion that the session key should be automatically generated and stored in the database for you. I've cobbled together a really ugly (but functional) illustration of this using the Configurator plugin. You can check it out here: http://github.com/trevorturk/el-dorado/tree/config/config/environment.rb Any improvements to this would be most welcome. I've thought about creating a plugin to handle this automatically, but I'd really like to see a consensus emerge about the appropriate place to store installation-specific config stuff like this. I’m not that happy with the database.yml solution either. I’m of the opinion that the session key should be automatically generated and stored in the database for you.

I’ve cobbled together a really ugly (but functional) illustration of this using the Configurator plugin. You can check it out here:

http://github.com/trevorturk/el-dorado/tree/config/config/environment.rb

Any improvements to this would be most welcome. I’ve thought about creating a plugin to handle this automatically, but I’d really like to see a consensus emerge about the appropriate place to store installation-specific config stuff like this.

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