@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ += NameNanny + +I needed functionality to encourage user’s to be on their best behavior when they choosing a username or filling out a form. Bad behavior can come in many forms but specifically, I wanted to prevent people from registering usernames like “administrator”, “root”, “abuse”,”support” etc. I also didn’t want people to pick names like “whore” or even “hoar”,”h0ar”,”wh0r3” (you get the picture). It occurred to me that others would like this functionality too, so I created the name_nanny plug-in which can be employed in a couple of ways. + +== Example usage + +In the model you can use: + + validates_wholesomeness_of :login + +This will check the login against values in two text files in the plug-in directory “badwords.txt”, and “restrictedwords.txt”. By default a match returns an non-descript error like “this username is already taken”. I chose a generalized error to dissuade users from trying to hack around the filter and find a word i missed. + +If you are filtering the body of text you may want to allow words like “administrator” in the body of the document. Therefore namenanny has a second method called “bleeptext”, which you can use thusly: +def before_save + %w(description, title, author, tags).each do |column| + if self[column.to_sym] + self[column.to_sym] = bleep_text(self[column.to_sym]) + end + end + end + +A sample output might look like this: + +p = Post.new +p.description = "Step two: put your dick in a box." +p.save +puts p.description = "Step two: put your bleeep in a box." + +You can also replace the bleeptext method with a smurftext method, which produces an equally hilarious: “Step two: put your smurf in a box.” + +== Authors, credits, contact +Authors:: Mark Daggett +Original announcement:: http://locusfoc.us/2007/2/13/name-nanny-plugin README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # The Name Nanny makes sure that users behave themselves when on the system. module NameNanny - RESERVED_NAMES = (IO.readlines RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/plugins/name_nanny/lib/reserved_words.txt').each { |w| w.chop! }.freeze - BAD_WORDS = (IO.readlines RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/plugins/name_nanny/lib/bad_words.txt').each { |w| w.chop! }.freeze + RESERVED_NAMES = (IO.readlines RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/plugins/name_nanny/lib/reserved_words.txt').each { |w| w.chop! } + BAD_WORDS = (IO.readlines RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/plugins/name_nanny/lib/bad_words.txt').each { |w| w.chop! } # Use a non-descript error to prevent the users from trying to hack around the filter. # Hopefully, they will just give up and choose something nicer. lib/name_nanny.rb 55e9e2b15d6aa9c084fc3d89eeadecd11e564189 heavysixer heavysixer@gmail.com http://github.com/heavysixer/name_nanny/commit/58ab5de0d2b84503c62bc02e29a8b9ee2f431915 58ab5de0d2b84503c62bc02e29a8b9ee2f431915 2008-05-29T11:50:16-07:00 2008-05-29T11:50:16-07:00 Added a proper README and removed the .freeze statement because it appeard to be causing a memory leak according to bleakhouse. ec0b4f3f3e15954e2a1a247c12da828b6cd7de41 heavysixer heavysixer@gmail.com