rack-dickbarblocker

A Rack middleware that displays a special page to anyone using the DiggBar.

Hat-tip to rue for suggesting the name.

Usage

Install it via Rubygems:

  # Add http://gems.github.com to your gem sources.
  # (You only need to do this once)
  gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
  # Install the gem
  sudo gem install cypher-rack-dickbarblocker

Add this to your rack config:

  require 'rack/contrib/dick_bar_blocker'
  
  use Rack::Contrib::DickBarBlocker, 'name or initials here'

Or, if you're on Rails, add this to your environment.rb:

  require 'rack/contrib/dick_bar_blocker'
  
  Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
    config.gem 'cypher-rack-dickbarblocker', :lib => 'rack/contrib/dick_bar_blocker', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
    config.middleware.use 'Rack::Contrib::DickBarBlocker', 'name or initials here'
    
    # rest of your config
  end

By default, it shows the following text, taken from John Grubers page (sans markup):

Dear Digg,
Framing sites is bullshit.

Your pal,
—(here are the supplied initials or name)

p.s. Firefox users may enjoy the
DiggBar Killer script for Greasemonkey.

p.p.s. Digg users can disable the DiggBar under
My Profile → Settings → Viewing Preferences.

You can override this by supplying the middleware with a block that returns whatever you want it to display:

use Rack::Contrib::DickBarBlocker do
  <<-HTML
  <html>
    <body>
      Kittens are fun!
    </body>
  </html>
  HTML
end

This would return an HTML page with "Kittens are fun!" on it instead.

DickBarBlocker expects the return value of the block to respond to to_s. It also currently hardcodes the content type to text/html, so your return value should also be (or generate) HTML.

cypher-rack-dickbarblocker

Runtime

rack-dickbarblocker

Usage

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