On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Arup Rakshit <[email protected]> wrote:
> The variable $SAFE determines Ruby's level of paranoia. Now it has 5
> different values to protest against "Security Vulnerabilities". Now Can
> any present some real time scenarios by which it can be easily

Do you mean "real world" scenarios?

> understandable how the $SAFE defined values performing for which they
> are set or when should we set what value out of 5?

A bit dated but probably still mostly correct
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/taint.html

> Now also in what situation we should think of lowering the SAFE level
> values or increasing the same?

You cannot lower it - for security reasons.  Typically you will create
a separate thread increase $SAFE there and do the potentially harmful
operations that you want to guard.

Kind regards

rpbert


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