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    <p>I have not been able to find an easy guide for securing a Ruby on Rails app against a <a href="http://codebutler.com/firesheep" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Firesheep</a>.</p> <p>In case you don't know, Firesheep jacks session cookies if your app doesn't force SSL and set the secure flag in the cookie. I had to do some searching to find these two things, so I thought I'd post what I found here and see if there is anything else I'm missing.</p> <p><strong>Step 1</strong> Force SSL</p> <p>There are two ways to do this that I found. One is using the <a href="https://github.com/rails/ssl_requirement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ssl_requirement</a> plugin, but this is a pain because you have to specifically specify <code>ssl_required :action1, :action2</code> in every controller.</p> <p>The preferable way appears to be by using Rack Middleware, via this post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3861772/force-ssl-using-ssl-requirement-in-rails-app/3862679#3862679">Force SSL using ssl_requirement in Rails 2 app</a>. Works like a charm.</p> <p><strong>Step 2</strong> Make cookies secure</p> <p>For this I followed <a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/10/25/how-to-use-ssl-to-secure-your-rails-app-against-firesheep-and-other-evils/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">these directions</a>, which tell you to put the following in your <code>config/environment/production.rb</code> file:</p> <pre><code>config.action_controller.session = { :key =&gt; 'name_of_session_goes_here', :secret =&gt; 'you need to fill in a fairly long secret here and obviously do not copy paste this one', :expire_after =&gt; 14 * 24 * 3600, #I keep folks logged in for two weeks :secure =&gt; true #The session will now not be sent or received on HTTP requests. } </code></pre> <p>This was all pretty straight-forward on my Rails 2.x app. Did I miss anything? Is it different for Rails 3?</p>
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