I am creating an application that allows a user to post messages to a
board. I want to be able to filter profanity. For instance if someone
types an inappropriate word of 5 characters I want it to read “#?@#@” or
whatever. Ideally, I would be able to install a rails plugin or ruby gem
and then simply write
Code : - fold - unfold
–> message_text.hide_profanity! <–
and that would automatically hide all words deemed inappropriate by the
filter.
I would also be OK with it being part of the validation, i.e.
–> validates_no_profanity :message <–
which would raise errors should there be any profanity in the value.
Is there any easy rails plugin or ruby gem that does this. This seems
like such a common need for an application that reinventing the wheel
seems foolish.
I haven’t seen any but it wouldn’t be that hard to RYO with word
lists. Also, you can check out www.webpurify.com which is a service
with a REST API (free for non-commercial use).
If you were to RYO, you may want to think about the following:
converting L337-speak to letters prior to filtering (e.g. @ → a, |
| → n)
I am creating an application that allows a user to post messages to a
board. I want to be able to filter profanity. For instance if someone
types an inappropriate word of 5 characters I want it to read “#?@#@” or
whatever. Ideally, I would be able to install a rails plugin or ruby gem
and then simply write
Code : - fold - unfold
→ message_text.hide_profanity! ←
and that would automatically hide all words deemed inappropriate by the
filter.
I would also be OK with it being part of the validation, i.e.
→ validates_no_profanity :message ←
which would raise errors should there be any profanity in the value.
Is there any easy rails plugin or ruby gem that does this. This seems
like such a common need for an application that reinventing the wheel
seems foolish.
Thanks,
-Nathan
I just created a Profanity Filter plugin for Rails during the Community
Code Drive at RailsConf 08. It’s just a one-liner in your model. You
can find it here:
I just created a Profanity Filter plugin for Rails during the Community
Code Drive at RailsConf 08. It’s just a one-liner in your model. You
can find it here:
I just created a Profanity Filter plugin for Rails during the Community
Code Drive at RailsConf 08. It’s just a one-liner in your model. You
can find it here:
Cool…
I wrote my own solution to this a while ago.
Not as elegant, perhaps.
also,
my solution is just a view helper…
hence we don’t destroy our user’s data.
it may be the case that you want to censor something in one context
(a front page “random comment” perhaps?)
but keep the original content in its true form on the proper page.
also,
my solution is just a view helper…
hence we don’t destroy our user’s data.
it may be the case that you want to censor something in one context
(a front page “random comment” perhaps?)
but keep the original content in its true form on the proper page.
also,
my solution is just a view helper…
hence we don’t destroy our user’s data.
it may be the case that you want to censor something in one context
(a front page “random comment” perhaps?)
but keep the original content in its true form on the proper page.
Fu-fu now has two modes: destructive (profanity_filter!) and
non-destructive (profanity_filter). The non-destructive version will
leave the original text in the database and only filter when called.
The safe method will not modify stored data.
also,
my solution is just a view helper…
hence we don’t destroy our user’s data.
it may be the case that you want to censor something in one context
(a front page “random comment” perhaps?)
but keep the original content in its true form on the proper page.
Yeah, the data modification could be an issue for some folks and will be
changing shortly.
