ankh¶ ↑

Ankh is the ancient Egyptian sign of life.

Use Ankh in your Rails (2.3.x or 3.0) projects to protect against bots and other spam producers. It asks a simple arithmatic question to verify that the poster is human.

In your model:

validates_human :on => :create

In your view (Rails 2 syntax shown below):

<%- obj.generate_human_question %>
<%- form_for obj do |f| -%>
  <%= f.label :human_answer, obj.human_question %>
  <%= f.text_field :human_answer %>
  <%= f.hidden_field :salted_human_answer %>
<%- end -%>

TODO¶ ↑

• Nice form helpers

• I18n support

• automated testing of Rails 2.3.x vs. 3.0

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.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Dan Pickett. See LICENSE for details.