My development style tends towards less and less metaprogramming and magic these days. Its not for lack of ability or lack of capable coworkers. I work with some pretty sharp people, and I know they can grok whatever sort of voodoo method_missing module_eval mysticism I can throw at them. But lately I [...]
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BrainBuster is a logic captcha plugin for Ruby on Rails. The 0.7 release has been completely overhauled to have a much less obtrusive approach using only filters, instead of requiring code changes to actions. It also features enhanced security, tests (!), and overall goodness.
If you are upgrading, PLEASE see the readme - the [...]
I’ve been using Google Browser Sync for a while now to sync bookmarks across any machine I use. Actually, I only use it to sync my bookmark toolbar, as I use delicious for any sort of “normal” bookmark. I think I use the bookmark drop down menu maybe once a month, but I [...]
Great thread on the memcached list. Facebook has 200 dedicated memcached servers, all 4 core boxes with 16 GB ram. Thats serious hardware. Having to scale to that size is a nice problem to have.
All the online APIs for Ruby and Rails suck. Thats been a given for a long time. Note that I’m not talking about the actual Rails Rdoc content itself - the doc project patches continue to roll in, and the HackFest also saw many doc patches merge in. The Ruby Rdoc content, [...]
Recently finished updating a app for Rails 1.2, the whole process wasn't too painful and its nice to see core get serious about removing cruft. Here are a few notes on the process:
Do the easy changes first – @request, @params, @flash, etc should all go away. Note that you still need @request in [...]
My first patch has been committed to Rails to fix a little bug with render_to_string. I'm an official Rails contributor.
To celebrate, here are two videos of giant centipedes eating a mouse and a bat! (Not for the faint hearted.)
New version of BrainBuster - that crazy ole' logic captcha plugin that asks the tough questions.
Changelog
* change naming to follow Rails 1.2 convetions -> ie "BrainBusterMixin" became "BrainBustersHelper"
* seperate out the filter
* seperate out the captcha credit into _captcha_footer partial
* move partials to a views folder, it makes more sense
* tweak css
Announcing the release of BrainBuster, a Logic Captcha plugin for Rails. I'm calling this version 0.5, btw, because I've been developing it and testing it for awhile on the Madison Rails wiki.
What is a logic captcha? Its a test to try and tell computers and humans apart via a simple logic puzzle, [...]
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