How to implement a profanity filter in RoR?

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I am developing a social web application with RoR. I realized that it's probably a good idea to prevent users from inserting rude or profane language into comments or posts.

Do you know any solution or plug-in that help me prevent something like this?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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The correct term you're looking for is a profanity filter (edited). Here are some previous discussions on this topic:

How do you implement a good profanity filter?
"bad words" filter
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/259610/profanity-filtering-profanity-dictionaries-scunthorpe-problem-profanity-generat

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answered May 05 '09 at 15:20

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TL;DR - It's really hard to make a fool-proof profanity filter. People can always circumvent them by being creative. There are services that specialize in this. Personally, I went with WebPurify and I've been pretty happy: http://www.webpurify.com/ – Marshall Æon Oct 09 '15 at 08:03

How to implement a profanity filter in RoR?

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