The whole manipulating code as date just always seems like such a rich target for exploitation like that ruby yaml bug from a while ago [0]. It seems like a fe

The whole manipulating code as date just always seems like such a rich target for exploitation like that ruby yaml bug from a while ago [0]. It seems like a features that would be great if your code never needs data from anywhere else but as soon as you gave data coming in from other sources it would be a bit of a nightmare. 0: http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/01/10/rails-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-explained/ http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/01/10/rails-remote-cod...