This major upgrade brings RailsGoat up to date with the latest versions:
- Ruby 2.6.5 → 3.3.6
- Rails 6.0.0 → 8.0.4
## Key Changes
### Dependencies
- Upgraded all gems to Rails 8-compatible versions
- Removed deprecated gems: therubyracer, coffee-rails, poltergeist,
travis-lint, rails-perftest, unicorn, powder, rubocop-github
- Updated puma to 6.6.1, sqlite3 to 2.8.1, rspec-rails to 8.0.2
- Added modern Rails 8 features: importmap-rails, stimulus-rails, turbo-rails
- Replaced poltergeist with selenium-webdriver for integration tests
### Code Changes
- Converted CoffeeScript files to plain JavaScript
- Updated test configuration to use Selenium headless driver
- Updated database schema to Rails 8 format
## Testing
- Application starts successfully and responds to requests
- Test suite runs with 23 examples (14 intentional vulnerability failures)
- Database migrations applied successfully
## Notes
This upgrade maintains all intentional security vulnerabilities that make
RailsGoat an effective training tool. The failing tests are expected and
demonstrate the vulnerabilities the application is designed to teach.
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* use bang version of save methods in the seeds file, so that when you fix validation,
it will at least explode, rather than silently failing to create users
* fix two tests where passwords are hardcoded so that they use stronger passwords,
since password complexity is not the important bit of either of those tests.
Your branch is behind 'origin/strong-params' by 1 commit, and can be fast-forwarded.
I'll pull to catch up after this commit
Change code to whitelist params
Remove attr_accessible lines
Add strong_params to Gemfile, since this branch is still on Rails 3
Mixin to ActiveRecord::Base ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesProtection
Use an initializer for the mixin
Ken Johnson