Ruby for Pen-Testers: Announcing Ruby Black Bag

Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Ruby for Pen-Testers: Announcing Ruby Black Bag: "This post is part of an informal series discussing the Ruby programming language for various tasks related to penetration testing. Many of us at Matasano do a lot of our coding in Ruby. We like using it when we need to write our own tools (which we do frequently) because it helps us rapidly get off the ground doing all kinds of bespoke things that would be more tedious and time-consuming (or even impossible) using off-the-shelf tools. Go ahead! Call us fanboys (and girls!!!). We can live with it. We want to share some practical tips based on our experiences in this realm."