Re: [myexperiment-hackers] Captcha error

[Finn Bacall]

Hi David,

Personally, option 3 seems like the most sensible one to me - or we 
could at least have captcha's ignored automatically when the server is 
in development mode (as they are when it is in test mode).

As far as I can tell, validates_captcha is only used in 3 places: user 
registration, submitting feedback and sending group invitations to 
people not yet registered and so shouldn't be too difficult to remove.

I created a JIRA issue for it:
http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/issues/browse/MYEXP-95

-Finn

On 05/01/12 11:00, David R Newman wrote:
> Hi Finn,
>
> This is a known issue with new installs since we migrated to Rails 2.
> The problem is caused because the validates_captcha plugin that is
> frozen in our codebase not working with Rails 2.
>
> I have posted a temporary workaround on the Fedora Installation page
> (http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Developer:FedoraInstallation)
> but at the time I thought it was a Fedora (the packaged version of ruby
> it uses) rather than Rails 2 problems.  I will add this workaround to
> the Ubuntu installation page.  However, this workaround just disables
> the captcha altogether, so this is why the codebase itself hasn't been
> updated.
>
> Don, Danius and I have discussed a few solution for this:
>
> 1.  Just used ReCaptcha instead.  You can change the options in your
> settings file to do that.  However, you will need to get a license key
> so you can fill in recaptcha_public and recaptcha_public.  This may not
> be ideal for some developers as it creates extra hassle but it is what
> we are currently doing on the main site.
>
> 2.  Replace the validates_captcha with a more suitable captcha gem, that
> I know to exist.  However, this require a fair amount of work.
>
> 3. Only support ReCaptcha but allow the developer to enable or disable
> it so that can just not have captchas whilst they are doing development
> and enable when they deploy.  This also requires so work to implement.
>
> Regards
>
> David Newman
>
>
> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 10:40 +0000, Finn Bacall wrote:
> > In the latest version of the trunk I get an error when visiting the
> > registration page:
> >
> > -----
> > ActionView::TemplateError: uninitialized constant
> > FleskPlugins::CaptchaConfig::PStore
> >       On line #37 of app/views/users/new.rhtml
> >
> >           34:<table style="margin-top: 2em;">
> >           35:<tr>
> >           36:<td>
> >           37:<% c = prepare_captcha :type =>  :image -%>
> >           38:<%= captcha_image_tag c -%>
> >           39:</td>
> >           40:<td style="vertical-align: top;">
> > -----
> >
> > I have the following settings in my settings.yml file:
> >       recaptcha_enable: false
> >       recaptcha_public:
> >       recaptcha_private:
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > -Finn
>
>
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Finn Bacall
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
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