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Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
After hours on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, Rietta executed our emergency hotfix procedure across our entire client base for sites impacted by a severe remote code execution vulnerability in ActiveStorage, a component of Ruby on Rails 8 and newer. We worked off the initial GitHub Security Advisory, published the same day …
September 4, 2026 · via the Rietta Blog
Protect Production SQL Databases from AI/LLM Agentic SQL Query Risks
Overview Many are concerned with how to protect production databases from AI query agents, a subset of AI coding agents, designed to assist in writing SQL queries against a database using natural-language prompts. It is helpful to think about this new capability as a pseudo-deterministic compiler that takes a prompt, …
February 4, 2026 · via the Rietta Blog
Use AI to Describe Images as a Background Job in Ruby on Rails
Recently I wrote about how I run a Local AI Setup with Ollama and Nvidia GPU on Ubuntu Linux, but today I want to touch a bit more about how one can fit Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your Ruby on Rails application. At the risk of oversimplication, let’s start with an example: you allow users to upload an …
January 23, 2026 · via the Rietta Blog
A Journey From QBasic Random Access Files to PostgreSQL
As a practicing developer, I have a good bit of experience working with software that needed to store data. In this article I am going to recount a brief history of the world of databases, the long version would take a book, as I personally experienced working on code for the last 28 years. This should be informative …
June 11, 2024 · via the Rietta Blog
Streamlining Workflows With Docker
Every week, our team puts most of our hours towards helping our long term, stable client applications stay up to date. From dependency upgrades to changes in the code base, we make sure these older rails apps are kept secure and functioning. Some of our clients choose to hire us because the amount of time spent …
February 9, 2021 · via the Rietta Blog
Learning Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby vs C/C++
As a newcomer to Ruby, the ease of using the language was a welcomed surprise. In the comp sci program at UC Davis, many of the core lower division courses, including those that introduce students to object-oriented programming (OOP), are taught in C/C++. Simultaneously learning the fundamentals for memory management …
December 15, 2020 · via the Rietta Blog
Remote Team Culture - Code Review and Style Guides
Code Review at Rietta When joining a new team, a developer can be nervous when making their first pull request or contribution to a codebase. The thought of your team going through your code and ripping it to shreds is both reasonable and scary. So how does a team eliminate this fear and instead, encourage newer …
December 12, 2020 · via the Rietta Blog
The convergence of Ruby on Rails and #AppSec Podcast Appearance
I recently appeared as a guest on the Application Security Podcast with Chris Romeo to talk about the convergence of Ruby on Rails and #AppSec. The discussion covered a range of topics including secure coding with Ruby on Rails, RoR vs other languages and culture, the importance of CI/CD, and more. Check it out!
October 7, 2020 · via the Rietta Blog