So I am still working in Ruby on Rails as part of my striving to stay sane where I currently live. I have been at Langorang.com for almost 7 months now and really enjoy it. After totally gutting the site and starting over from scratch, I am now building a comments system and in turn a user registration system. This means that I need a way to keep bots from registering and posting those ads we all absolutely love to hate.
I need a captcha tool to assist with keeping out the “bad guys”. Enter Simple Captcha from Expressica.com. The author did an excellent job putting together the plug-in and made it simple enough for a novice to install (which is why I am raving about it 
!!). Combine this with the spam flagging tools and other checks I am putting into the system, this set of tools should be able to keep spam to a minimum.
As the site continues to grow I will need to get more concerned about how to handle the traffic. Recently, it just went over the 100 unique visitor a month range. Considering that when the site started there were only 2 results returned in Google for the search term langorang, this is something I am very excited about! .
If you need captcha tools in you rails site use Simple Captcha, it is a great little plug-in for Rails.
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