ActiveRecord has gone 1337! This plugin allows you to make everything read out of the database be displayed in h4x0r lingo. The plugin actually contains two components:

• The module L337 which contains the ability to speak 1337
• An ActiveRecord::Base extension which allows ActiveRecord to speak 1337

L337

The module L337 contains the methods encode_char, encode_twochar, encode_string and speak.

Usage

  activerecord_1337-0.0.1$ irb -r lib/1337.rb
  irb(main):001:0> L337.speak 'hacker'
  => "h4x0r"
  irb(main):002:0> L337.encode_string 'hacker'
  => "h4x0r"
  irb(main):003:0> L337.encode_char 'a'
  => "4"
  irb(main):004:0> L337.encode_twochar 'er'
  => "0r"

ActiveRecord 1337 Sample

  irb(main):002:0> t=Topic.create :title=>'The Sword Of Shannara', :author_name=>'Terry Brooks'
  => #>, @attributes={"author_name"=>"Terry Brooks", "title"=>"The Sword Of Shannara", "type"=>nil, "id"=>3, "approved"=>true, "replies_count"=>0, "bonus_time"=>nil, "content"=>nil, "written_on"=>nil, "author_email_address"=>nil, "parent_id"=>nil, "last_read"=>nil}, @new_record=false>
  irb(main):003:0> t.author_name
  => "70rrj 8r00X5"
  irb(main):004:0> t.title
  => "7h3 5\\/\\/0rd 0|= 5h4nn4r4"