I am creating a Ruby on Rails site and am curious about the best way to
stop spam on the site. For account creation there is:
a) Captcha
b) email verification
For messages, forums I am sure you could try to check the message for
any weird characters or typical spam phrases. I saw in the other post
there is the hivelogic email enkoder for hiding email addresses for
protecting email addresses. I was reading a blog and it said captcha
and email verification are bothersome to users. Almost seemed from the
blog that it shouldn’t be used. If that is true, what are RoR
developers using? What is the best practice for Ruby on Rails
developers?
thanks.
Mike