'rufus-treechecker'

what is it ?

Initialize a Rufus::TreeChecker and pass some ruby code to make sure it's safe before calling eval().

getting it

sudo gem install -y rufus-treechecker

or download it from RubyForge.

usage

The treechecker uses ruby_parser (rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree) to turn Ruby code into s-expressions, the treechecker then checks this sexp tree and raises a Rufus::SecurityError if an excluded pattern is spotted.

The excluded patterns are defined at the initialization of the TreeChecker instance by listing rules.

require 'rubygems'
require 'rufus-treechecker'

tc = Rufus::TreeChecker.new do
  exclude_fvcall :abort
  exclude_fvcall :exit, :exit!
end

tc.check("1 + 1; abort")               # will raise a SecurityError
tc.check("puts (1..10).to_a.inspect")  # OK

Nice, but how do I know what to exclude ?

require 'rubygems'
require 'rufus-treechecker'

Rufus::TreeChecker.new.ptree('a = 5 + 6; puts a')

will yield

"a = 5 + 6; puts a"
 => 
 [:block, 
   [:lasgn, :a, [:call, [:lit, 5], :+, [:array, [:lit, 6]]]], 
   [:fcall, :puts, [:array, [:lvar, :a]]]
 ]

For more documentation, see github.com/jmettraux/rufus-treechecker/tree/master/lib/rufus/treechecker.rb

dependencies

the 'rogue-parser' gem

mailing list

On the Rufus-Ruby list :

http://groups.google.com/group/rufus-ruby

issue tracker

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=18584&group_id=4812&func=browse

source

github.com/jmettraux/rufus-treechecker

git clone git://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-treechecker.git

author

John Mettraux, jmettraux@gmail.com, jmettraux.wordpress.com

the rest of Rufus

rufus.rubyforge.org

license

MIT

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