Mead

Mead is a simple honeypot gem and field name obfuscator. It allows you to add a honeypot to any form as easily as calling honeypot_field_tag.

Usage

Honeypots

Generating a simple honeypot

 honeypot_field_tag

 # => <div>
 #      <label for="pseudo_random_field_name">
 #      <input type="text" name="pseudo_random_field_name" id="pseudo_random_field_name">
 #    </div>

You can also get more creative by using it as a block to generate a content tag and nest your honeypot. This can allow you to make your honeypot blend in as seamlessly as you like to the DOM.

honeypot_field_tag(:label) do |name|
  check_box_tag(:do_not_check, name, false, class: 'mead-input-attributes')

# => <label class="mead-label-attributes">
#      <input id="name", name="name", type="checkbox", value="false">
#    </label>

Obfuscation

mead_obfuscate_tag(:first_name) do |first_name|
  label_tag first_name
  text_field_tag first_name

# => <label for="obfuscated_first_name">
#    <input name="obfuscated_fist_name" id="obfuscated_first_name" type="text">

To deobfuscate your params you can call mead_params to get a hash returned of the deobfuscated values.

def user_params
  params.
    require(:user).
    permit(:first_name, :last_name)
    .merge(mead_params)
end

user_params
# => {first_name: foo, last_name: bar, email: "foo@bar.com"}

In addition to the above form tag helpers, Mead also implements these tags as form helpers and form builders as well.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cwagrant/mead.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.