How many people are using Ruby now?

rubyonrails-talk
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I enjoyed the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org/) in the early days of Linux adoption and so when we had some free time, one of my team tossed together a little app for registering and counting Ruby users and tracking Ruby adoption rates.

It's at http://www.rubyusers.com

If you think it's a good idea, please sign up. Or you could just do it for the link back to your homepage, cv or blog.

If you think it's a bad idea, then I'm really sorry to have bothered you.

All the best,

Paul

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Yes, it took me three gos to get the text correct.

Colin

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What problem did you have? I had no problem at all.

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What problem did you have? I had no problem at all.

I could not read the words. I tried the audio feed but that did not recognise what I typed either. The last letter is often truncated. (Tried on IE and FF, no difference). Once I realised that there was a button to generate a new code it was ok, I pressed it a couple of times till something I could read appeared. It would be easier if the words were simple words, I have just had another look and one of them is Trubenback, clicked the refresh and one is volen with half a letter on the end that might be a t, or perhaps it is violent with the i mixed up with the v.

I am not normally deficient in the pattern recognition department as far as I am aware.

Colin

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I guess I just lucked out. I tried again several times and I see what you mean. In some cases the last letter was indeed truncated.

Well, I hope this gets addressed.

David

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Unfortunately, it won’t take a valid email address. Mine is a firstname.initial.lastname@vanderbilt.edu

Need to work on the e-mail regex! There are numerous examples on the web for e-mail regexes. Have a look.

Oh, and post when it is fixed. Thanks!

Cheers–

Charles

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So it seems we have to do two things ASAP: replace the Google books capcha with a logical capcha (I just like the idea of helping with the Google books project) and relax the email validation. The developer probably did use a standard regex email validation script from the web, but often those are not as friendly as those of us with unusual email addresses would like (mine is @llp.pl, so I get busted from time to time for not having a .com or .org email).

I'm sure we'll get it fixed soon. The developer was not in the office today.

Thanks for the community-based testing. :slight_smile:

All the best,

Paul

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I hate capchas, personally. We chose this one because at least it does some good. As you use it, it improves the OCR of a book scanning project. But as it's really a barrier to access, then I would prefer a logical capcha to prevent bots creating accounts. A logical captcha is something like "The sum of 4 and 8 is ________." They are always easy to read, even for browser readers for the blind.

All the best,

Paul