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Ruby

Posted by Andrea Sanchez
Andrea Sanchez
Courses Plus Student 2,132 Points

I got this security message rails server command

SECURITY WARNING: No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie. This poses a security threat. It is strongly recommended that you provide a secret to prevent exploits that may be possible from crafted cookies. This will not be supported in future versions of Rack, and future versions will even invalidate your existing user cookies.

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You can ignore this message for the time being. There's an in depth explanation here if you're interested in what's going on under the hood. The long story short is that it's just a warning. If you want to make the warning disappear, open up your Gemfile and put the following in:

gem 'rack', '1.4.1'

Then run "bundle install" and you should be good to go.