Brakeman

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Brakeman detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis.
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V Viktor Schmidt
Usage
RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/brakeman

$ bin/brakeman -AI

Run this command in your Rails app directory in the terminal:

rails app:template LOCATION="https://railsbytes.com/script/XnJsQ5"
Template Source

Review the code before running this template on your machine.

def do_bundle
  Bundler.with_unbundled_env { run "bundle install" }
end

def print_green(heredoc)
  puts set_color heredoc, :green
end

def print_yellow(heredoc)
  puts set_color heredoc, :yellow
end

def do_commit
  git :init
  git add: "."
  Bundler.with_unbundled_env { git commit: " -m 'Add Brakeman static analysis tool' " }
end

def puts_usage
  say "\nUsage:"
  say "`bin/brakeman -Aq`"
end

say "\nApplying Brakeman static analysis tool..."
if Rails.version < "7.2"
  inject_into_file 'Gemfile', after: 'group :development, :test do' do
    <<-RUBY 

  # Static analysis for security vulnerabilities [https://brakemanscanner.org/]
  gem "brakeman", require: false
    RUBY
  end

  do_bundle

  run "bundle binstubs brakeman"
end

run "bin/brakeman -AI"

say "\nAdding documentation for developers..."
create_file "docs/security.md", "# Security\n" unless File.exist? "docs/security.md"
append_file "docs/security.md" do
  <<~EOF  
  
  ## Brakeman

  [Brakeman](https://rubygems.org/gems/brakeman) detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis.

  `$ bin/brakeman -AI`
  EOF
end

do_commit

print_green "\nAdded Brakeman successfully!"
print_yellow "\nNotice: Brakeman is under Public Use License only! See https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/51195."
puts_usage
Comments
Viktor Schmidt
Included by default in Rails 8, see https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50507