Spoken

Some Good Things: Anyway, yesterday we found out that the tumor in Susan’s hip is nasty and big enough that her hip’s in danger of fracturing; she needed to get on radiation pronto, in the hopes that we can shrink the tumor before her hip breaks. Cuz if the hip breaks, they have to operate to fix it, which would delay chemo. So we spent the morning getting Susan ready for that before I headed off to work. [It is with great sorrow that I read the difficulty facing these folks. I’ve had no chance to meet them, but I’ve often laughed at the writing, which includes family antics. I’ve learned that stats don’t count when it comes to cancer. Family friends who were written off 10 years ago are still with us and enjoying life. Most recently in the news, Roger Ebert displayed the incredible strength available to those who simply continue to do what they love to do. Roll your eye’s Roger, but you’ve joined the list cancer heros. To Susan & Eldon and family, may you be blessed with a speedy and complete recovery.]
Source: Fat Cyclist

[PLUGIN RELEASE] ActsAsSecure: Introduction

ActsAsSecure adds an ability to store ActiveRecord model’s fields encrypted in a DB. When a model is marked with acts_as_secure, the :binary type fields are recognized as needed to be stored encrypted. The plugin does before_save/after_save/after_find encryption/decryption thus making it transparent for a code using secured models.

The plugin supports a master key approach as well as individual records encryption keys. It does not contain any crypto provider but allows to plug in any external one as long as it supports encrypt/decrypt methods.

The fields are converted to a YAML form before encryption. After description they are restored via YAML.load. Since fields are stored encrypted, the find usage is very limited.[Keep ‘em coming…]
Source: Revolution On Rails