some light security on a voting web site

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm creating a site where a profile can be voted on by guest users.

I want to prevent basic fraud by disallowing multiple votes for the same profile in one session.

I was thinking about using a session array and checking for the profile ID in the session array.

So far, it's not working correctly and I'm not even sure if this is the best approach.

Any ideas?

I'm open to new ideas, or at least debugging on my code:

    unless session[:voted_user_ids]       session[:voted_user_ids] = Array.new     end

unless session[:voted_user_ids].include? params[:voted_user_id]     @vote = Vote.create(...)     session[:voted_user_ids].push params[:vosted_user_id] end

Thanks, Andy

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If that's your exact code, it's not working cause you have "vosted_user_id" (see that extra 's') in one of your lines...

Also you can replace your first three lines with:

session[:voted_user_ids] ||=

-philip

3

You could take a look at http://blog.peteonrails.com/vote-fu/