Spam detection in Ruby

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Background

As any good Ruby developer does, I regularly review new projects by @ankane. Most recently I came across transformers-ruby and have been wondering about how to leverage HuggingFace models.

A use-case finally arose in wanting to flag potential spam messages from users in a Ruby on Rails application. I initially found the DriftingRuby episode “Detect Spam with AI” but was dissatisfied with the need to use a Python microservice.

This is my exploration in how to setup and use a permissively licensed spam detection model in Ruby.

Discovering & reporting secrets bundled in an Electron app

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

[!NOTE] To protect myself, the affected company & application names are changed.

Background

In November 2022, as part of a consulting contract I found myself needing to configure Android devices to run in a form of kiosk-mode with my contractor’s line-of-business app as the sole application usable on the device.

The manufacturer of these Android devices, here-by referred to as BigCo, provided two features that allowed me to accomplish this at drastically reduced cost compared to a traditional mobile device management (MDM) solution:

Jonah George

Spam detection in Ruby

Background

Discovering & reporting secrets bundled in an Electron app

Background