How To Encrypt Fields in Ruby on Rails with Lockbox
Channel: Mike Rogers
Date: 2021-02-09

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use the Lockbox gem ( https://github.com/ankane/lockbox ) to encrypt field within your Database. 

This is a good solution for when you need to store some sensitive data (such an oauth credentials, or an API key) within your database.

# Chapters

0:00 - What are we going to do?
0:17 - Why Encrypt Fields
0:57 - attr_encrypted is unmaintained
1:05 - Lockbox is better
1:31 - Adding the Gem to our Gemfile
1:51 - Generating the key
3:00 - Adding migration for field
4:06 - Accessing field via rails console
5:18 - Lockbox is awesome, thank you for watching!

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