Integration of Google reCaptcha with Rails application

Integration of Google reCaptcha with Rails application
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ReCaptcha is a powerful captcha service to be use with a form to stop spam. This blog demonstrates the use of reCaptcha in rails application. Here I have used the ruby version 1.9.3 and Rails version 3.2.8.

Environment

  • Ruby version – 1.9.3
  • Rails – 3.2.8

Step#1

Create an account with Recaptcha “http://www.google.com/recaptcha” and register your site name with your google account to retrieve the public and private key that will be used later on the application

Step#2 

Installation of Recaptcha

  • Gem
  • Open your Gemfile and add this code
gem 'recaptcha', :require => 'recaptcha/rails'
  • Plugin
  • rails plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

Step#3

Create a file named recaptcha.rb in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializer and fill it with these codes

ENV['RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY'] = 'youractualpublickey' ENV['RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY'] = 'youractualprivatekey'

Step#4

Usages Open your views file and add this code

<%= recaptcha_tags %>

Step#5

Validation In controller, you can check the captcha validation by the following

if @model.save && verify_recaptcha(:model => @developer, :message => "Oh! It's error with reCAPTCHA!") #captcha is valid else #captcha is invalid end

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