Rails: storing encrypted data in database

Question

I want to encrypt database because confidential data is being stored. I use mongodb with mongoid. It possible for this kind of database? And what alternatives can you recome

Answer 1

I've had a lot of success with the attr_encrypted gem. However, I've only used it with ActiveRecord. I don't know if it works with MongoMapper or Mongoid.

Regardless of how you implement this, I strongly recommend only encrypting certain fields. Don't encrypt every field in every table. Doing that will make it difficult to use associations, search using LIKE, etc.