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Encrypting Passwords In The Database

May 31, 2023

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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We don't want to save passwords in plaintext in our password manager's database. That would be insecure. Luckily Rails provides ActiveRecord Encryption to make this easy.

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