*sigh*
Users putting scaffold into production deserve what they get. It's
the same where you have 'eval' in any language: security is the job
of the developer, every one.
Oh and btw: Rails is a framework.
TO BE CLEAR. DRUPAL, WIKIS, PHPBB ARE NOT.
That you don't understand this distinction is telling.
- - james
On 21 Apr 2007, at 10:06, Gordon Joly wrote:
Twitter, Ruby on Rails redux.
Perhaps one more issue? Security.
There is an accelerating trend to frameworks and other CMS systems
for user generated content (wikis, Zope, Drupal, Ruby on Rails,
etc). Applications with a database backend (e.g. phpBB) can be
installed by Fantastico (cPanel) in seconds and Mediawiki also has
a simple web interface for installation.
I saw the light in 2004 when Jimbo visited the BBC and gave a
public talk in London):-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk_slides
Can I add "Wikipedia is not a place for cricket statistics" ?
Each framework presents security issues. Mediawiki is now robust,
and if you take care, bogus advertising links and other bad stuff
can be avoided.
Socialtext? Yup, that too. I found a very dirty set of pages,
clogged with links to mortgages and various medications. It had not
been spotted by the admins, and I was accused of generating the bad
stuff in question myself, since nobody could see the links (they
were hidden in the user generated tags).
I also tried to clean up an installation of phpBB (bulletin board)
recently but in the end gave up since there were more bogus users
than bona fide users.
Scaffold anyone?
Gordo
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