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Metasploit Gems From Scratch
Introduction
As Metasploit adopts community best practices related to testing and code
structure, we've started breaking up our new (and part of our old) work into
separate projects that can developed and tested independently. These smaller
projects take the form of Ruby gems and Rails::Engines. As we've made more and
more gems, we've gotten a repeatable process for making new gems, but we thought
our process might we useful for other developers in the community that are
looking for a newer gu
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Metasploit
Not Reinventing The Wheel: The Metasploit Rails::Application in 4.10
In Metasploit 4.10, we converted Metasploit Framework (and prosvc in Metasploit
Commercial Editions) to be a full-fledged Rails::Application. You may be
wondering why Metasploit Framework and prosvc, should be Rails applications when
they aren't serving up web pages. It all has to do with not reinventing the
wheel and very useful parts of Rails, Rails::Railtie and Rails::Engine.
Rails 3.0 infrastructure
Since Rails 3.0, Rails has been broken into multiple gems that didn't require
each other a