I failed to mention the scope of my project. I do not intend to recreate the wiki (as my earlier description may convey), rather, I am focusing on the promotion of Rails, and the developers and firms that use it.
They are, however, I have a different approach to the promotion.
Good morning all.
We have launched the initial Railsforall.org site, located at http://www.railsforall.org, with a full launch planned within the next month or two. Visit the site and sign up to be notified of the official launch. Railsforall.org is dedicated to the promotion of Ruby on Rails in the developer and business communities.
** We need your help! **
We are looking for case studies. Case studies will show the business community at large that Ruby on Rails works, and is useful for a variety of applications. Not only does a case study lend credence to Rails and its uses, it also provides an advertising opportunity for you, your firm, and the application. Shoot us an email (info at railsforall dot org) for further details on what is required.
I look forward to your responses and case study inquiries.
Sincerely,
Robert Dempsey Founder Railsforall.org
Hello,
I emailed DHH and asked him if I could fork I2 wiki that is used by Ruby on Rails wiki b.c it seemed no one was maintaining it... DHH granted my requested thus, I have created a fork these past couple of days, called RaWiki. I have integrated the captcha_validation plugin into RaWiki to prevent spammers. I also implemented a 10 chances and you're banned for 24hrs with the captcha_validation to prevent spammers from brute-forcing the captcha.
I plan to keep developing RaWiki b.c I am also working on another project, http://techniwiki.com, to create a community of docs, and hopefully offer free documentation hosting for other projects.... eventually the idea is a central repository of docs. You can see RaWiki working at http://techniwiki.com and test it out, if you like.
If any of this sounds like it may be useful to the Rails wiki, let me know and we can work out the details.
Justin Forder wrote:
Rob Sanheim wrote:
So, just to clarify - if I edit rev 44 from that svn instance of i2 to add a logic captcha, it can be deployed to the production rails wiki to hold off spam for a bit. And Justin can stop spending an hour a day rolling back spam. Correct?
Yes, that would be excellent
I set up another repository, and we moved rev 44 into that, then applied some changes that had been made locally on the deployed wiki.
Chad Johnson integrated your BrainBuster CAPTCHA, and Ben Rockwood deployed it last night (this morning for me, UK time). It seems very effective!
Chad made some changes so that a wrong answer to the CAPTCHA doesn't lose the data in the form. You can find the code here:
Thanks for your excellent code!
Justin Forder
Great, thanks for letting me know.
Sorry I couldn't help out on it, been way too crazy with my job lately.
- Rob
Rob Sanheim wrote:
Great, thanks for letting me know.
Sorry I couldn't help out on it, been way too crazy with my job lately.
That's OK. The CAPTCHA is making a huge difference - spam on the wiki had been peaking at around 3000 page changes a day, and now it's down to a handful.
- Justin