= UserAgent

http://github.com/jamieflournoy/UserAgent

== DESCRIPTION:

Determine whether the HTTP user agent talking to your code is a web spider.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

All you can do at this point is call UserAgent.is_spider? and pass it the user agent.

== SYNOPSIS:

If you're using Rails, require the gem in config/environment.rb like this:

config.gem 'jamieflournoy-UserAgent', :lib => 'user_agent'

and create an initializer at config/initializers/user_agent.rb and paste this into it:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
session :off, :if => proc { |request| UserAgent.is_spider?(request.user_agent) }
end

Otherwise just ask UserAgent.is_spider? and pass it the user agent string.

== REQUIREMENTS:

To run the tests you will need Shoulda.

sudo gem install shoulda

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install jamieflournoy-UserAgent

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

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