# Captcha or not captcha?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 21, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521 "2007-03-21T00:17:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eric)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521/1 "2007-03-21T00:17:12Z")

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hi, I’m developing a RoR application and I’m doing the registration and  
contact pages, the two most important things are the accessibility of  
the site and the multi language support (I think by globalize). So the  
question is, I should use a captcha for these pages? I think that if I  
won’t use it I’ll get a lot of useless records in the db, but with a  
captcha the accessibility became low… and a logic captcha i think that  
will be a problem for a multiple language support…  
what do you suggest me ?  
I thought about a javascript captcha, can be ok? what do you think ?

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**Author:** ![eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eric)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521/2 "2007-03-21T00:51:05Z")

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> hi, I’m developing a RoR application and I’m doing the registration and  
> contact pages, the two most important things are the accessibility of  
> the site and the multi language support (I think by globalize). So the  
> question is, I should use a captcha for these pages? I think that if I  
> won’t use it I’ll get a lot of useless records in the db, but with a  
> captcha the accessibility became low… and a logic captcha i think that  
> will be a problem for a multiple language support…  
> what do you suggest me ?  
> I thought about a javascript captcha, can be ok? what do you think ?

Maybe look at the form-spam-protection plugin if you’re willing to  
require  
javascript…

[http://code.google.com/p/form-spam-protection/](http://code.google.com/p/form-spam-protection/)

I’ve got that on a site I did for a contact form and to my knowledge the  
recipient hasn’t had any problems…

-philip

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**Author:** ![eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eric)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521/3 "2007-03-21T13:30:58Z")

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Philip H. wrote:

> > hi, I’m developing a RoR application and I’m doing the registration and  
> > contact pages, the two most important things are the accessibility of  
> > the site and the multi language support (I think by globalize). So the  
> > question is, I should use a captcha for these pages? I think that if I  
> > won’t use it I’ll get a lot of useless records in the db, but with a  
> > captcha the accessibility became low… and a logic captcha i think that  
> > will be a problem for a multiple language support…  
> > what do you suggest me ?  
> > I thought about a javascript captcha, can be ok? what do you think ?
> 
> Maybe look at the form-spam-protection plugin if you’re willing to  
> require  
> javascript…
> 
> [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/form-spam-protection/)
> 
> I’ve got that on a site I did for a contact form and to my knowledge the  
> recipient hasn’t had any problems…
> 
> -philip

and if the js is disabled what happen? a captcha is shown?  
do you think is better to have a captcha ?

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**Author:** ![eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eric)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521/4 "2007-03-22T00:15:14Z")

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Philip H. wrote:

> > > 
> > 
> > and if the js is disabled what happen? a captcha is shown?  
> > do you think is better to have a captcha ?
> 
> Then alternative HTML is shown indicating that the user needs to enable  
> javascript…

this is not good…and not accessible… ☹

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**Author:** ![eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@eric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eric)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/captcha-or-not-captcha/89521/5 "2007-03-21T17:35:54Z")

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> > 
> 
> and if the js is disabled what happen? a captcha is shown?  
> do you think is better to have a captcha ?

Then alternative HTML is shown indicating that the user needs to enable  
javascript…