ReCAPTCHA

This plugin adds helpers for the ReCAPTCHA API (recaptcha.net/). In your views you can use the recaptcha_tags method to embed the needed javascript, and you can validate in your controllers with verify_recaptcha.

You’ll need to get public and private API keys from ReCaptcha. Then, tell them to the library:

  Ambethia::ReCaptcha.public_key = '0123456789ABCDEF'
  Ambethia::ReCaptcha.private_key = '0123456789ABCDEF'

You’ll also need to set Ambethia::ReCaptcha.enabled = true. It’s set to nil by default

You can have multiple recaptcha settings and keys for different environments so in any of your environment files the following to enable recaptcha:

  config.after_initialize do
        Ambethia::ReCaptcha.enabled = true
        Ambethia::ReCaptcha.public_key = '0123456789ABCDEF'
        Ambethia::ReCaptcha.private_key = '0123456789ABCDEF'
  end

recaptcha_tags

Some of the options available:

verify_recaptcha

This method returns true or false after processing the parameters from the ReCAPTCHA widget. Why isn’t this a model validation? Because that violates MVC. Use can use it like this, or how ever you like. Passing in the ActiveRecord object is optional, if you do—and the captcha fails to verify—an error will be added to the object for you to use.

  respond_to do |format|
    if verify_recaptcha(@post) && @post.save
      # ...
    else
      # ...
    end
  end

TODO

• Remove Rails/ActionController dependencies
• Framework agnostic
• Add some helpers to use in before_filter and what not
• Better documentation