Setting up Bcrypt in your Rails project

If you're here you probably already know that storing passwords in plain text is a bad idea. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to set up Bcrypt in your Rails project. It's quite simple, yet offers powerful security to your user's information as well as any sensitive data you might be storing in your database. It's so simple in fact, you'll probably have time to read about how it works at the end if you aren't already familiar.

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