[LRUG] Exception notifier and bots

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

don't know if that's true Tom.

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.

Don;t think we should explicitly be .slice-ing all incoming params just to
avoid this circumstance.
Particularly in #create calls.

Always try to avoid setter methods like this;

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def name=(value)
    self.connection.execute("DROP DATABASE my_production_db")
    self[:name] = value
  end
end

Because Post.new(:name => "Matthew") will really mess you up!

2008/7/31 Tom Stuart <tom at experthuman.com>

> On 31 Jul 2008, at 11:16, Andrea (Q) wrote:
>
>> everyday i receive a lot of exceptions but the most of are from bot, there
>> is a way to manage that situation?
>>
>
> I know it's not a very helpful thing to say, but: don't you want to fix
> whatever problem is causing these exceptions, rather than just ignoring
> them? Presumably any exception encountered by a bot could just as easily be
> encountered by a user?
>
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