Ruby
TrustCaptcha – Bot protection

Ruby CAPTCHA Integration

Add TrustCaptcha to your Ruby (or Ruby on Rails) backend to protect sign-ups, logins, contact forms, and checkouts from bots. This guide shows the quick setup and how to validate requests with our ready-made Ruby integration. EU-hosted, GDPR-ready, and puzzle-free for higher conversions.

Quickstart

How the integration works

1. Create a CAPTCHA

Create a user account or log in with an existing one. Then create a new CAPTCHA or select an existing one. If you’re unsure whether TrustCaptcha is right for you, try our CAPTCHA service risk-free for 14 days at no cost.

On the CAPTCHA overview page, you will find all the important information, such as the site key, secret key and licence key. Allow your websites to access your CAPTCHA by simply adding them to the access authorised domain list in the CAPTCHA security rules.

Start of the CAPTCHA creation form.
CAPTCHA security rules of a demo CAPTCHA.

2. Integrate the CAPTCHA widget into your frontend

Integrate the CAPTCHA widget into your website or app. For precise, detailed instructions, please read the CAPTCHA widget guide in our documentation.

Read the documentation

The CAPTCHA widget will then be displayed on your website or app:

CAPTCHA done

Prebuild frontend integrations
You can use one of our pre-built frontend integrations to integrate the CAPTCHA widget into your website or application. If there is no pre-built integration from us for your preferred frontend technology, your software developers can integrate the CAPTCHA themselves using using our documentation or ask our support-team for a pre-built integration solution.

Android
Angular
Craft CMS
Flutter
iOS
JavaScript
Joomla
Keycloak
Magento 2
React
React Native
TYPO3
Vue
Webflow
WordPress

3. Validate the CAPTCHA result in your backend

The following steps give you an idea of how to retrieve the CAPTCHA verification result from our server in a Ruby backend and determine how to proceed based on this result. For precise, detailed instructions, please read the CAPTCHA integration guide for Ruby in our documentation.

Read the documentation

First, install our TrustCaptcha Ruby dependency:

Install
bash
gem install trustcaptcha

Retrieve the verification result from our server using the verification token and the secret key of your CAPTCHA:

Fetch Result
Ruby
# Retrieving the verification result
begin
  verification_result = CaptchaManager.get_verification_result('<your_secret_key>', verification_token)
rescue StandardError => e
  # Fetch verification result failed - handle error
  puts "Failed to fetch verification result: #{e.class} - #{e.message}"
  status 500
  return { error: 'Captcha verification failed', message: e.message }.to_json
end

Based on the verification results and your individual needs, decide how you would like to proceed:

Handle Result
Ruby
# Act on the verification result
if !verification_result.verification_passed || verification_result.score > 0.5
  puts 'Verification failed or bot score > 0.5 – possible automated request.'
end

Need detailed information about the Ruby CAPTCHA integration?
For detailed instructions on integrating TrustCaptcha, please refer to our Ruby CAPTCHA integration guide. A complete integration example for the Ruby CAPTCHA can be found in our CAPTCHA Samples Repository on Github.

Other backend technology instead of Ruby?
If you do not want to use Ruby on your server or have several different backends, you can select a different integration here. If there is no pre-built integration from us for your preferred backend technology, your software developers can integrate the CAPTCHA verification process themselves using our documentation or ask our support-team for a pre-built integration.

.Net
Go
Groovy
Java
Kotlin
Nodejs
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Spring

4. Congratulations 🎉

You are now protected by TrustCaptcha - congratulations!

CAPTCHA done

FAQs

What is a Ruby CAPTCHA?
A Ruby CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test integrated into a Ruby application to separate real visitors from automated scripts. Modern solutions like TrustCaptcha run automatically in the browser, solving a lightweight proof-of-work puzzle and returning a signed token that your Ruby code verifies server-side. This keeps spam, credential stuffing and scraping bots out of your forms with only a few lines of code.
What is the best Ruby CAPTCHA?
The best Ruby CAPTCHA blends strong security, privacy and developer ergonomics. TrustCaptcha stands out for European projects because it layers adaptive proof-of-work with an AI-powered bot score, offers full GDPR compliance and lets you customise everything from language to colours. Its gem installs in seconds, and fine-tuning security thresholds or design doesn’t require touching backend logic.
How does a Ruby CAPTCHA work?
In TrustCaptcha’s flow, the frontend widget silently solves a cryptographic puzzle while our servers calculate a bot-probability score from device and session signals. The widget then returns a compact token. Your Ruby code posts that token to TrustCaptcha’s verify endpoint and receives a signed JSON result indicating success, failure or elevated risk. Based on that response you accept, block or further challenge the request.
Do I need a Ruby CAPTCHA?
If your Ruby site exposes forms, search, checkout or APIs to the public internet, you almost certainly need a CAPTCHA. Automated bots can brute-force credentials, scrape content and flood databases, hurting UX and even SEO rankings. TrustCaptcha adds a frictionless barrier that absorbs most bot traffic with virtually no impact on legitimate users. For closed, internal tools you might instead rely on strict access controls.
Is TrustCaptcha GDPR-compliant?
Yes. All verification data is processed and stored exclusively in EU data centers, no cookies are set and standard Data Processing Agreements can be signed online in minutes. This lets Ruby developers meet the strictest European privacy requirements without extra paperwork. A Minimal Data Mode is also available for projects that wish to disable behavioural scoring entirely.
Will TrustCaptcha slow my Ruby app?
No. The heavy lifting happens client-side and on TrustCaptcha’s edge network, while the gem makes a single HTTPS POST that averages well below 100 ms. Independent benchmarks show pages load up to three times faster than image-based CAPTCHAs because no puzzles, images or extra scripts are downloaded.
Can I style TrustCaptcha to match my brand?
Absolutely. You can switch between light and dark themes, override every colour, hide branding, localise texts in 35+ languages and even run the widget invisibly with a subtle status hint. All options are configurable from the dashboard or via query parameters, so designers can iterate freely without redeploying your Ruby code.
Losing leads to CAPTCHAs?

TrustCaptcha blocks spam and bots, not customers. No puzzles, GDPR-ready, EU-hosted.

CAPTCHA start
CAPTCHA done
Puzzle-free UX
Runs in the background while visitors type — so more people finish your forms and fewer drop off.
GDPR-ready
EU-hosted and privacy-first: no cookies, encrypted transmission, automatic cleanup — with ready-to-use legal resources.
Multi-layer Security
Adaptive protection plus intelligent risk scoring stops abuse early — even when attack traffic spikes.
Full Control
Fine-tune sensitivity, set allow/block lists, and use geoblocking — you decide how strict verification should be.

Protect your Ruby application with TrustCaptcha in just a few steps!

  • EU-hosted & GDPR-ready
  • No puzzles
  • Try free for 14 days