Brakeman was first publicly released four years ago today!

In those four years, Brakeman has gradually become a widely-used static analysis security tool for Ruby on Rails, leaving other web frameworks jealous.

Is there something like Rails’ brakeman gem (automated security checks) for Django?

— Fabio Akita (@AkitaOnRails) December 6, 2013

@nodesecurity do you know of an equivalent module in #nodejs to the @brakeman gem?

— Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) January 16, 2014

Is there something like @brakeman that would check security of an Ubuntu server? /cc @roidrage @zuzur @envygeeks @postmodern_mod3 @gcouprie

— Thibaut Barrère (@thibaut_barrere) February 15, 2013

Brakeman is used in all kinds of organizations, from hobby projects to open source applications to start-ups to large corporations. If your organization uses Brakeman, please consider being listed!

congrats to the @brakemanscanner project on their 1.0 release today, we appreciate your work within @twitter http://t.co/SHjQM5k2

— Twitter Open Source (@TwitterOSS) December 8, 2011

Brakeman also helps power several SaaS offerings!

Rails Security Monitor is powered by @brakeman which we <3 and contribute to. We hope fans Brakeman fans will like it: http://t.co/2yI8S20l

— Bryan Helmkamp (@brynary) February 11, 2013

Did you know Brakeman even won a Ruby award?

Thanks @yukihiro_matz and other judges! This is an awesome trophy and I'm honored to receive it. pic.twitter.com/Dz1W8b1qof

— Justin Collins (@presidentbeef) April 9, 2013

Because Brakeman is so old, it still supports Rails 2.3 (2009!) and Ruby 1.8.7 (2008!) while usually adding support for new releases fairly quickly, making it useful for nearly any Rails application. If it doesn’t work for you - please file an issue!

Many thanks to the many people who have contributed to Brakeman. All contributions - patches, bug reports, documentation updates, promoting Brakeman, or even just asking questions - are sincerely appreciated. Lots of gratitude to the open source projects underlying Brakeman and their maintainers, especially Ryan Davis. And a big thank you to the companies who have funded Brakeman’s development!

• 4 years
• 39 contributors
• 69 releases
• 181 closed issues
• 2,043 commits
• 700,000+ gem downloads

Here’s to four more years?

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