simple captcha image not displaying

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Attached is an image of my problem but here goes. Installed RoR to run Raillist. I installed it per instructions and everything seems to be working great except I can't get my captcha images to show

I am not sure what the problem is as I am a complete noob to RoR. Any pointers towards a direction to fix would be greatly appreciated!

If you need to the site address is secondlist dot org.

Thank you very much in advance. -Christine

Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4439/simplecaptcha.png

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Christine,

I am the author of Railslist (craigslist clone). Your problem appears to be an issue with ImageMagick/RMagick. You can resolve it either by re-installing them or by verifying that it path is correct.

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Christine,

I am the author of Railslist (craigslist clone). Your problem appears to be an issue with ImageMagick/RMagick. You can resolve it either by re-installing them or by verifying that it path is correct.

First of all thank you so much for your response. I love this software and I appreciate the time you took to create it and make it open source.

I have checked some paths but I am wondering now what to do.

I have noticed a discrepancy here: in simple_captcha_config.rb (/vendor/plugins/simple_captcha/lib/)

def simple_captcha_image_path #:nodoc       "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/simple_captcha/assets/images/simple_captcha/

However I do not have an images/simple_captcha folder in assets. (everything else I think is correct or appears to be) So I created it for grins and giggles as to maybe it needs that folder to temp write the image (I am grasping at straws so pardon if I make a mistake)

Whereis ImageMagick results with (In case this is needed) convert: /usr/bin/convert /usr/share/man/man1/convert.1.gz

I am at a loss and am stuck in the weeds. Thanks again for any response in advance.

Regards, Christine

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YAY! So I got the captcha working on my own. For information's sake here's how I had to fix the problem.

I went here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ and installed the fonts.

It stuck them in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts but the default path is not there so I so I just copied the fonts inside that folder to /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType reloaded my site and the captcha was there.

Thank you to anyone who read this and to Railslist for taking the time to reply. I am thoroughly excited I figured that one out on my own, though I should have known all along what the problem was.

Regards, Christine

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Christine G. wrote:

YAY! So I got the captcha working on my own. For information's sake here's how I had to fix the problem.

I went here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ and installed the fonts.

It stuck them in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts but the default path is not there so I so I just copied the fonts inside that folder to /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType reloaded my site and the captcha was there.

Thank you to anyone who read this and to Railslist for taking the time to reply. I am thoroughly excited I figured that one out on my own, though I should have known all along what the problem was.

Regards, Christine

I posed a question on the group and no one answered. May be they think it is too silly. Since you got it figured out. I thought you can help me.

I am running XP. Downloaded simple captcha from expressica, unzipped into vendor/plugin. Ran

rake simple_captcha:setup.

Gives me error: rake aborted! don't know how to build task 'simple captcha:setup_old' I checked rails version by

gem list rails

Gives me rails <2.3.5, 1,2,2> can you tell me how to fix this?