Goodbye Instiki, Hello JunebugWiki 6
If you’ve spent much time on the Ruby on Rails wiki, you know that the spam situation smells like rotten fruit.
We’ve been using Instiki, the same software as the Rails wiki for the PLANET ARGON Documentation Project and the spam situation was becoming an annoyance. So, we’ve switched to JunebugWiki as step one, to see how it holds up. The default styling was a nice improvement because we haven’t had much chance to update the instiki one. It might not solve all of our spam problems, but in the short term, it appears to be a more elegant solution. It’s also the first application built with camping that I have personally deployed.
So… I present to you… the new PLANET ARGON Documentation Project.
In other news, it appears that RubyURL has caught the eye of spammers, which sucks. I’m still thinking over a few possible ways to try and prevent that. :-/
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Re: RubyURL – Try a CAPTCHA and/or random field names. I find the latter to be slightly more effective, especially if you generate random, hidden fields to throw off bots. It’s the “negative CAPTCHA” idea, with a slight twist I suppose.
Jeremy,
The captcha idea wont work because people have gems that use rubyurl… meaning that people could totally bypass it.
Perhaps an API key…
Junebug is very cool. I’ve start using it for my personal notes. I’ve find it easy to customize for appearance and some features( like code syntax hightlight with help of filtered column plugin from technoweenies)
If you have tips to deploy it on your hosted plan, i’ll be happy to hear some.
.. Kill their accounts and steal the pagerank? ;)
Erm, sorry about the dups, something messed up.
I, too, would love to hear any tips about deploying it on a shared hosting environment, should you feel the inclination… I’ve never tried to deploy a Camping app before.