[LRUG] Exception notifier and bots

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

attr_accessible, rather

2008/7/31 Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com>

> only if you use attr_allowed
>
> >> User.new("this" => "doesnt have a writer")
> NoMethodError: undefined method `this=' for #<User:0x37b0d38>
>     from
> /Users/matthew/code/aspire/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:201:in
> `method_missing'
>
> will always happen otherwise.
>
> and doing :attr_allowed everywhere is a big hassle!
>
> 2008/7/31 Tom Stuart <tom at experthuman.com>
>
>> On 31 Jul 2008, at 14:44, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:
>>
>>  We get quite a few errors from bots trying to inject random stuff.
>>> So they pump in params that don't exist, and we barf on them.
>>>
>>
>> What Pratik said. Ideally the app won't actually barf (i.e. 500 error) no
>> matter what params you throw at it.
>>
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