Watch: Block the Bots: Native Rails Rate Limiting in 10 Minutes

🛡️ Rails ships with built-in rate limiting tools — no gems required. In this video, I’ll show you how to use Rails’ native rate_limit helper to throttle requests, block spam signups, and slow down brute-force attacks.

We’ll add login and registration throttles by IP and email, set general and unsafe method rate limits, and test everything with RSpec and curl.

Covered in this episode:
• Using rate_limit blocks inside Rails controllers
• Limiting requests per IP or per email
• Custom response handling for throttled users
• Setting limits for unsafe HTTP methods (POST, PUT, DELETE…)
• Setting up your test environment to work with rate limits
• Tips on cache stores for dev, test, and production

🎯 This is the foundation to stop spam bots, brute force logins, or scraper abuse — and it’s super easy to add.