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Olivier Dumas
Olivier Dumas

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🤬 Make users' input polite with PoliteText

#ruby #rails #codenewbie #opensource

Hey devs ✌️,

At stanza.dev we help developers to share coding concepts and learn from each others. 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

We can't monitor each post by hand but as Stanza must be a place full of love 🌞, we have developed a gem that removes the bad words from the website : polite_text

Remove swear words 🤬 

include PoliteText

str = "This gem is a fucking big shit but let's try it"

PoliteText.be_polite!(str)
=> "This gem is a *** big *** but let's try it"
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Check if string is polite 🙅‍♂️ 🙅‍♀️ 

include PoliteText

str = "This gem is a fucking big shit but let's try it"

PoliteText.is_polite?(str)
=> false
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Example for an Article model 

# == Schema Information
#
# Table name: articles
#
#  id         :bigint           not null, primary key
#  text      :string           default(""), not null
#  created_at :datetime         not null
#  updated_at :datetime         not null
#

class Article < ApplicationRecord
  include PoliteText

  # Callbacks
  before_save :make_text_polite

  # Methods
  def make_text_polite
    PoliteText.be_polite!(text)
  end
end
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Custom swear words list 🌞

You can even pass your custom swear words list that is relevant for your app.

We have opensourced it and we hope that you will like it and contribute to improve it if you want 🙏

👉 stanza.dev - Learn coding concepts faster

Access the gem repo here

Top comments (2)

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Ian bradbury •

Definitely book marking this.

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Olivier Dumas •

Thank you very much ! :)
I've just made the config for custom swear words list even simpler now, feel free to contribute or to send me your feedbacks if I can improve some stuffs !