reCAPTCHA for Rails

reCAPTCHA is a new, free, webservice for generating and verifying captcha challenges with some collateral benefits. Last night I dished out some Rails helpers for it. I’ve even gotten a patch in to add some features I hadn’t implemented yet.

  • RDOC at http://ambethia.com/recaptcha
  • Plugin at http://svn.ambethia.com/pub/rails/plugins/recaptcha

It’s pretty straight forward to get up and running, checkout the README.

4 Responses to “reCAPTCHA for Rails”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 bob

    where are the recaptcha examples?

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 evan

    great plugin
    wondering if you have any tips for using it in a form that is updated asynchronously…

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 evan

    I figured out a way to use the reCAPTCHA AJAX API, which takes care of my problem.

    Just submitted an enhancement patch to your lighthouse tracker.

    thanks again and enjoy!

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Adam Florin

    Thanks for this!

    One thing… It looks like the display options are being unnecessarily HTML escaped. If I specify the theme to be ‘blackglass’, I see in the output:

    var RecaptchaOptions = {"theme": "blackglass"};

    I can easily work around this of course, just FYI!

Leave a Reply