Security Vulnerability in the Bootstrap Gem

Here is the relevant GitHub issue. They were so sneaky. The posted a ruby gem, but with some sneaky additions. This was not posted on Github. They were hoping that nobody would notice. But someone did. In order to pull this off, you’d have to be a fairly sophisticated rubyist, with a good understanding of rack, and some basic security knowledge exploits. They must have some time on their hands to pursue such nefarious ends.

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Prawn Table - Hello World Example

Prawn is my go-to pdf generator, when using a Ruby on Rails application. I wanted to create a table in prawn, and having no idea how to do so, stumbled upon an article on-line on how to do this. Without it, I would have been lost.

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