[ANN] flatulent-0.0.2 - ajax gets stinky

Rails
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NAME

flatulent : CAPTCHA for FIGLET.

SYNOPSIS

the flatulent gem provides brain dead simple to use, but
internally cunning,
ascii art captcha for ruby.

URI

http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby
http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople

HOW DO I GET FLATULENT?

gem install flatulent

HISTORY

0.0.2

 - ajax gets stinky: Flatulent.ajax!  the result of this new

addition is
that the captcha itself doesn’t appear in the source file at all

 - blowfish encoding for timebomb and captcha fields

 - auto server key configuration using hostname and mac address

 - improved noise algorithm

 - improved character placement (chars shared edges to make

ocr’ing harder)

0.0.1

 - initial version

RAILS EXAMPLES

REGULAR METHOD (LESS SECURE):

 def controller_action
   if params.has_key? 'flatulent'
     Flatulent.validate! params
   end

   render :inline => <<-html
     <html><body>
       #{ Flatulent.form }
     </body></html>
   html
 end

AJAX METHOD (MORE SECURE):

 def controller_action
   if params.has_key? 'flatulent'
     Flatulent.validate! params
   end

   render :inline => <<-html
     <html>
       <head> <%= javascript_include_tag 'prototype' %> </head>
       <body>
         <form action='./' method='post'>
           <%= Flatulent.ajax %>
           <input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit' />
         </form>
       </body>
     </html>
   html
 end

DOCS

see source in ./lib/*
see the example rails project in ./rails

ONLINE SAMPLES

http://drawohara.tumblr.com/post/4944987

ONLINE DEMO OF AJAX METHOD

http://fortytwo.merseine.nu:3000/flatulent/ajax – try to break it!

enjoy.

-a

we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being
better. simply reflect on that.
h.h. the 14th dalai lama