Maintaining a Rails application up to date and secure takes some effort. Rails has a ton of security support, but there are other tools you can use to protect your codebase and production database.

In this blog post, we will cover a few Ruby gems and best practices that you can use to stay on top of your security, reliability, and stability needs.

Before we dive into 4 different Ruby gems (rack-attack, brakeman, secure_headers, and bundler_audit) you can use to improve your security support, let’s start with some of the security goodies that already come with Rails.

Read more here: 4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security