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How Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Works in Ruby on Rails

February 8, 2022

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Chris Oliver

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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Ever gotten an InvalidAuthentictyToken error in Rails and wondered how CSRF works? In this lesson, we'll learn how it works behind the scenes so you can understand exactly what's going on.

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