honeypot-captcha

A simple way to add honeypot captchas in your Rails forms.

Honeypot Captcha

Honeypot captchas work off the premise that you can present different form fields to a spam bot than you do to a real user. Spam bots will typically try to fill all fields in a form and will not take into account CSS styles.

We add bogus fields to a form and then check to see if those fields are submitted with values. If they are, we assume that we encountered a spam bot.

Usage

I've tried to make it pretty simple to add a honeypot captcha, but I'm open to any suggestions you may have.

form_for

Simply specify that the form has a honeypot in the HTML options hash:

<% form_for Comment.new, :html => { :honeypot => true } do |form| -%> ... <% end -%>

form_tag with block

Simply specify that the form has a honeypot in the options hash:

<% form_tag comments_path, :honeypot => true do -%> ... <% end -%>

form_tag without block

Simply specify that the form has a honeypot in the options hash:

<%= form_tag comments_path, :honeypot => true -%> ...

References

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Author

Written by Curtis Miller of Flatterline

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