Ruby5 - Gotcha - A locally managed CAPTCHA-like test

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Episode #158 - March 15, 2010

The Gibbler's Gotcha with her Sorcery, the Zombies Git SHA, and OmniAuth Resolves a new release on this episode of Ruby5.

Gotcha - A locally managed CAPTCHA-like test

While reCAPTCHA (and others) are quite nice for hosted CAPTCHA solutions, sometimes those processes are too critical to rely on a third party. If this is the case for you, maybe the Gotcha library by John Crepezzi will work for you. It ships with SumGotcha (correctly calculate simple sums) and BackwardsGotcha (type a random string backwards) and is fully self-contained.

May 15th, 2012

We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.

May 8th, 2012

We Hook into Common Rails Mistakes, Process an Ox, drink some Oj, and watch RailsConf videos of a Monologue with Opee on this episode of Ruby5.

May 4th, 2012

Spree 1.1.0 e-commerce platform released … the “t” gem is command-line power tool for Twitter … the Focused Controller gem brings real OOP to Rails controllers … “10 Things You Didn’t Know Rails Could Do” talk by James Edward Gray II … “Legacy Concerns in Rails” blog post by Richard Schneeman … “ruby HTTP client performance shootout redux” blog post by Jonathan Rochkind … RubyMotion lets you use Ruby on iOS

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