#SimpleCaptcha2

SimpleCaptcha(2) is the simplest and a robust captcha plugin. Its implementation requires adding up a single line in views and in controllers/models. SimpleCaptcha2 is available to be used with Rails 3 + 4. This is a fork of the popular Rubygem simple_captcha which got abandoned.

##Features

• Zero FileSystem usage (secret code moved to db-store and image storage removed).
• Provides various image styles.
• Provides three level of complexity of images.
• Works absolutely fine in distributed environment(session and db based implementation works fine in distributed environment).
• Implementation is as easy as just writing a single line in your view. <%= show_simple_captcha %> within the 'form' tags.
• Flexible DOM and CSS handling(There is a separate view partial for rendering SimpleCaptcha DOM elements).
• Automated removal of 1 hour old unmatched simple_captcha data.

##Requirements

• Ruby >= 1.9.3
• Rails >= 3.2
• ImageMagick should be installed on your machine to use this plugin. visit http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php for more details.

You might need to install Ghostscript on a Mac-System:

brew install ghostscript

##Installation

Put this into your Gemfile

gem 'simple_captcha2', require: 'simple_captcha'

and run bundle install.

Setup

After installation, follow these simple steps to setup the plugin. The setup will depend on the version of rails your application is using.

rails generate simple_captcha
rake db:migrate

Usage

There are two usage scenarios:

Controller Based

Add the following line in the file "app/controllers/application.rb"

ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include SimpleCaptcha::ControllerHelpers
end

In the view file within the form tags add this code

<%= show_simple_captcha %>

and in the controller's action authenticate it as

if simple_captcha_valid?
  do this
else
  do that
end

Model Based

This is suggested, if you want to integrate the error message into the normal form validation flow.

In the view file within the form tags write this code

<%= show_simple_captcha(:object=>"user") %>

and in the model class add this code

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  apply_simple_captcha
end

####Form-Builder helper

<%= form_for @user do |form| -%>
  ...
  <%= form.simple_captcha :label => "Enter numbers.." %>
  ...
<% end -%>

####Validating with captcha

NOTE: @user.valid? will still work as it should, it will not validate the captcha code.

@user.valid_with_captcha?

####Saving with captcha

NOTE: @user.save will still work as it should, it will not validate the captcha code.

@user.save_with_captcha

###Formtastic integration

SimpleCaptcha detects if you are using Formtastic:

<%= form.input :captcha, :as => :simple_captcha %>

Tests

You can make the Captcha always pass with a initializer file: config/initializers/simple_captcha.rb

SimpleCaptcha.always_pass = Rails.env.test?

You can also ask for the value, e.g. Acceptance Tests/Features:

visit '/pages/form_tag'
assert_equal 1, SimpleCaptcha::SimpleCaptchaData.count
fill_in 'captcha', with: SimpleCaptcha::SimpleCaptchaData.first.value

##Options & Examples

###View Options

• :label - provides the custom text b/w the image and the text field, the default is "type the code from the image"
• :object - the name of the object of the model class, to implement the model based captcha.
• :code_type - return numeric only if set to 'numeric'

###Global options

• :image_style - provides the specific image style for the captcha image. There are eight different styles available with the plugin as...

1. simply_blue
2. simply_red
3. simply_green
4. charcoal_grey
5. embosed_silver
6. all_black
7. distorted_black
8. almost_invisible

Default style is 'simply_blue'. You can also specify 'random' to select the random image style.

• :distortion - handles the complexity of the image. The :distortion can be set to 'low', 'medium' or 'high'. Default is 'low'.

Create "./config/initializers/simple_captcha.rb"

SimpleCaptcha.setup do |sc|
  # default: 100x28
  sc.image_size = '120x40'

  # default: 5
  sc.length = 6

  # default: simply_blue
  # possible values:
  # 'embosed_silver',
  # 'simply_red',
  # 'simply_green',
  # 'simply_blue',
  # 'distorted_black',
  # 'all_black',
  # 'charcoal_grey',
  # 'almost_invisible'
  # 'random'
  sc.image_style = 'simply_green'

  # default: low
  # possible values: 'low', 'medium', 'high', 'random'
  sc.distortion = 'medium'
end

You can add your own style:

SimpleCaptcha.setup do |sc|
  sc.image_style = 'mycaptha'
  sc.add_image_style('mycaptha', [
      "-background '#F4F7F8'",
      "-fill '#86818B'",
      "-border 1",
      "-bordercolor '#E0E2E3'"])
end

You can provide the path where image_magick is installed as well:

SimpleCaptcha.setup do |sc|
  sc.image_magick_path = '/usr/bin' # you can check this from console by running: which convert
end

You can provide the path where should be stored tmp files. It's usefull when you dont have acces to /tmp (default directory)

SimpleCaptcha.setup do |sc|
  sc.tmp_path = '/tmp' # or somewhere in project eg. Rails.root.join('tmp/simple_captcha').to_s, make shure directory exists
end

How to change the CSS for SimpleCaptcha DOM elements?

You can change the CSS of the SimpleCaptcha DOM elements as per your need in this file.

app/views/simple_captcha/_simple_captcha.erb

###View's Examples ####Controller Based Example

<%= show_simple_captcha %>

<%= show_simple_captcha(:label => "human authentication") %>

####Model Based Example

<%= show_simple_captcha(:object => 'user', :label => "human authentication") %>

####Model Options

• :message - provides the custom message on failure of captcha authentication the default is "Secret Code did not match with the Image"

• :add_to_base - if set to true, appends the error message to the base.

#####Model's Example

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  apply_simple_captcha
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  apply_simple_captcha :message => "The secret Image and code were different", :add_to_base => true
end

##I18n

en:
  simple_captcha:
    placeholder: "Enter the image value"
    label: "Enter the code in the box:"
    message:
      default: "Secret Code did not match with the Image"
      user: "The secret Image and code were different"

##Contributing

For testing, generate a temporary Rails dummy app inside test:

rake dummy:setup
rake app:db:migrate
rake app:db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
export BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$PWD/Gemfile
cd test/dummy && rake db:migrate db:test:prepare
rake test

Please add test cases when adding new functionality. I started with some basic example integration tests for a very basic coverage.

The tests will be run on Travis-CI.

##Who's who?

Enjoy the simplest captcha implementation.

Original Author of the Version for Rails 2: Author: Sur, Blog: http://expressica.com, Contact: sur.max@gmail.com Plugin Homepage: http://expressica.com/simple_captcha

Plugin update for rails 3: http://github.com/galetahub

update for Rails 4, tests and forked by Stefan Wienert (pludoni GmbH)