comp.lang.ruby

Eric Hodel

1/9/2007 4:43:00 PM

On Jan 8, 2007, at 22:29, Tom wrote:

> Well I'm mailing about a problem I'm having while using the rails
> framework, since it does seem to be a ruby problem I thought I
> might as well post here
>
> I have a security level problem, for unknown reasons it switches
> from level 0 to level 4 and then provoke some error related to the
> security level...

$SAFE is switched when you assign to it, never at any other time.

> I have a plugin we developed I that uses a lot of method.call and
> apparently according to a post at technoweeny rails forum, this
> could be the problem ( http://www.railsweenie.com/forums...
> 659 ) ...
>
> Is there any way to resolve this problem without having to stop
> using method.call (we don't really want a major rewrite) ? What
> exactly is the problem and why does it happen?

You have code like $SAFE = 4 in your program somwhere. Use grep to
find it.

Typically $SAFE = 4 is only set in a spawned thread since its so
strict its rarely useful outside of sandboxing dangerous code.

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