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		dbalatero on June 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rails developers: would any of you find this usefu... Also from a security perspective, I'd like to see the code that I'm transferring to my machine (and likely executing).

pat_shaughnessy on June 9, 2011 [–]

Yes - this is an important concern, I agree. I hope that ratings/comments/reputation for scaffolds can help here. It's actually no different than installing a gem: you rely on the reputation of the gem author or else recommendations from other users to trust the gem will not do any harm when you try to use it.

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