Simon Willison’s Weblog

Is your Rails app XSS safe? SafeErb is an interesting take on auto-escaping for Rails: it throws an exception if you try to render a string that hasn’t been untainted yet.

Posted 10th January 2008 at 6:46 pm

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A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 1.0a20 - 4th November 2025
New prompt injection papers: Agents Rule of Two and The Attacker Moves Second - 2nd November 2025
Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge - 28th October 2025

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