TextCaptcha

A captcha verification for Rails apps, directly integrated into ActiveRecord. It uses questions & answers instead of those ugly images.

Installation

Just run

gem install text_captcha

Usage

Just add the validation to your model.

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_captcha
end

By default the {:on => :create} option will be used. You can provide any other option you want.

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_captcha :if => :new_record?
end

@comment = Comment.new

@comment.challenge
#=> The colour of a red T-shirt is?

@comment.challenge_answer = "red"
@comment.valid?
#=> true

Note that you can answer the question without worrying about uppercase/lowercase. All strings are normalized before the comparison. So “ReD”, “RED” or “red” will pass the validation.

You can use TextCaptcha with a non-ActiveRecord class. You just need to include the TextCaptcha::Validation module.

class Comment
  include ActiveModel::Validations
  include TextCaptcha::Validation

  validates_captcha
end

@comment = Comment.new
@comment.valid?
#=> false

@comment.errors[:challenge_answer]
#=> ["You need to answer the anti-spam question."]

You can disable TextCaptcha without having to remove all validations. This is specially good when running tests.

TextCaptcha.enabled = false

class Comment
  include ActiveModel::Validations
  include TextCaptcha::Validation

  validates_captcha
end

@comment = Comment.new
@comment.valid?
#=> true

To-Do

Add more questions.

License

(The MIT License)

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