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attr_encrypted: Encrypts and Decrypts Your Attributes Transparently

By Peter Cooper — January 10th, 2009 — 2 Comments

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attr_encrypted is a Ruby library by Sean Huber that generates attr_accessors that can encrypt and decrypt your attribute data transparently and on the fly. attr_encrypted comes as a gem, and isn't strictly for Rails only - it supports ActiveRecord and DataMapper out of the box, for example.

The README is so good that there's little else to say. All you need to do is add attr_encrypted :attribute_name, :key => 'some key' lines to your models and you're most of the way there.

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2 Comment Responses to “attr_encrypted: Encrypts and Decrypts Your Attributes Transparently”

  1. #1
    Markus Jais Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 8:28 am

    This is cool. Can't be any easier. It's small stuff like this, why I like Ruby and Rails so much.

  2. #2
    Paul Campbell Says:
    January 12th, 2009 at 1:11 am

    This is really great ... strange that it's taken so long for something so simple and useful to be done in such a straightforward way. ... but good!

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