Brakeman is a security scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. Brakeman scans your application's source code, which is a different approach to other web security scanners. Brakeman does not require you to set up your entire application stack in order to use it. Brakeman scans your application code and generates a report detailing all security issues found. Once Brakeman is installed, it doesn't require any configuration or setup. Simply run it. Brakeman is a program that only requires source code. You can create a new application using rails new and then run Brakeman to check it. Brakeman doesn't rely on spidering sites for all pages. This allows it to provide a more comprehensive coverage of an application. This includes pages that may not yet be live. Brakeman can detect security flaws before they are exploitable. Brakeman was specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It can check configuration settings for best practice.