A few months ago, some coworkers sent around a Ruby challenge. It appears simple, but we can sometimes learn a lot from simple problems. Write a Ruby program that determines the smallest three digit number such that when said number is divided by the sum [...]

YAML’s security risks are in no way limited to Rails or Ruby. YAML documents should be treated as executable code and firewalled accordingly. Deserializing arbitrary types is user-controlled, arbitrary code execution. It’s Not Just Ruby A few weeks ago, I[...]

Let me quickly explain Ruby‘s dynamic object creation. When I talk about dynamic object creation, I’m referring to when you instantiate a new object instance from meta-data using a class (also referred to a as a Type in .NET) name, or class meta-data obje[...]