AJ Morris

My Rantings about Rails, and other fun stuff.

August-6-07

Ruby on Rails Spam Protection

posted by AJ

So I’ve been looking through various tutorials and such trying to find something that protects comment spam. So far the only thing I’ve been able to come up with is Akismet. Us WordPress users know what Akismet is, but there’s some various tutorials out there that show us how to use Akismet in our ROR apps. There is a Akismet plugin that’s out there, but what I’ve found out there, things are either too hard to figure out myself, or they are confusing. So I’m wondering what other ROR developers are using to protect against comment spam. I have heard of people using different plugins for captchas, but I’m looking more for IUE (Initial User Experience) in my app then a user having to put in characters for a captchas. Is there anyone out there using something different? An easy way to implement things? Your knowledge would be muct appreciated. :)

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  1. Robin Yap Said,

    I’m moving to Wordpress with all the goodies that’s readily available and with friends like you who are experts in the field… now if only I have a couple of days off to do this. Nice post AJ

    BTW I’ve tagged you at http://tinyurl.com/2lqqxr

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