Limited

Some utility functions to help you limit some actions in your applications (like logins, contact forms, posting of comments, etc.) to stop spammers to absue your services.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'limited'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install limited

Usage

You need to define your actions somewhere in your application like this:

Limited.configure do
  # this action should only be 1337 times at most 
  action :name_of_action, amount: 1337

  # only 1 login all 10 seconds
  action :login, amount: 1, every: 10

  # at maximum 123 contact emails a day
  action :sending_contact_email, amount: 123, every: :day

  # you can also define identifier, which can be used to distinguish counters
  identifier :category, [:category_id]

  # no more than 50 posts a day are allowed per category
  action :post, amount: 50, every: :day, per: :category
end

The second parameter given to action defines how many times the action can be executed.

After defining an Action you can directly call a method on the Limited module to access your Action like this:

Limited.name_of_action 
Limited.login
Limited.sending_contact_email
Limited.post

Here are a few commonly used methods which every Action provides:

executed	Call this method everytime the specified action is being executed
limit_reached	Wheter the limit has been reached or not

For example:

unless Limited.sending_contact_email.limit_reached

  # code to send contact email

  Limited.sending_contact_email.executed
end

If the action uses an identifier (you used the :per option in the config file) you can pass a hash containing the values used to distingish counters.

For example:

unless Limited.post.limit_reached({category_id: category.id})

  # code to insert post into the category ...

  Limited.post.executed({category_id: category.id})
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request