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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: antipattern</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/antipattern.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-09-22T20:28:12+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Is your Rails application safe?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/22/rails/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-09-22T20:28:12+00:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T20:28:12+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/22/rails/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-safe-from-mass-assignment"&gt;Is your Rails application safe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
update_attributes(params[:foo]) in ActiveRecord is an anti-pattern.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311345"&gt;news.ycombinator.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/activerecord"&gt;activerecord&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/antipattern"&gt;antipattern&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails"&gt;rails&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security"&gt;security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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