Mead is a simple honeypot gem and field name obfuscator. It allows you to add a honeypot to any form as easily as calling honeypot_field_tag.

Generating a simple honeypot

 honeypot_field_tag
  
 # => <div>
 #      <label for="pseudo_random_field_name">
 #      <input type="text" name="pseudo_random_field_name" id="pseudo_random_field_name">
 #    </div>

You can also get more creative by using it as a block to generate a content tag and nest your honeypot. This can allow you to make your honeypot blend in as seamlessly as you like to the DOM.

honeypot_field_tag(:label) do |name|
  check_box_tag(:do_not_check, name, false, class: 'mead-input-attributes')
  
# => <label class="mead-label-attributes">
#      <input id="name", name="name", type="checkbox", value="false">
#    </label>

mead_obfuscate_tag(:first_name) do |first_name|
  label_tag first_name
  text_field_tag first_name
  
# => <label for="obfuscated_first_name">
#    <input name="obfuscated_fist_name" id="obfuscated_first_name" type="text">

To deobfuscate your params you can call mead_params to get a hash returned of the deobfuscated values.

def user_params
  params.
    require(:user).
    permit(:first_name, :last_name)
    .merge(mead_params)
end

user_params
# => {first_name: foo, last_name: bar, email: "foo@bar.com"}

In addition to the above form tag helpers, Mead also implements these tags as form helpers and form builders as well.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cwagrant/mead.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.