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How do I supply the path to a Rails application despite being in the root folder?

I am trying to run Brakeman on my code to identify any security vulnerabilities.

I have installed the gem and I am in the root folder of my Rails 4.2.4 application.

However when I try and run Brakeman using: 

brakeman –f html -o brakeman.html

I keep getting the following message returned in the terminal:

Please supply the path to a Rails application.

How is this done in a Rails environment for this gem?

Solution

  • You can additionally supply the root like so :

    brakeman . –f html -o brakeman.html

    Albeit, it's strange it's not auto-detecting that. Perhaps because of all the options you chose. I'd also try stripping it down as just performing :

    brakeman

    .. and see if that can detect that you're in the root.