Recent Posts by daveungerer

Topic: isitruby19.com / Comment spam

Yeah, same thing for other common gems, like mysql and mongrel.

isitruby1.9 is (was) a very valuable resource. Thanks for that, Brightbox. But now, you’re dragging your name through the mud with the way the site is going, and turning people off from using Ruby 1.9. Either take your site down completely or release the source code to the community so they can help you fix the problem.

UPDATE: Apologies, I see the source code is in fact on Github. I hope there’s a solution that can be found for this spam problem!

UPDATE 2: OK, I just forked it. Before I do anything, let’s have a discussion around it. I’m thinking about adding verification questions:

e.g.

Supply the name of the method on Enumerable (i.e. Enumerable#?) that matches this description:
enum.? {| obj | block } => array
Returns a new array with the results of running block once for every element in enum.

With the answer, of course, being map or collect.

We only need a few of these questions to end the spam problem. Please let me know your thoughts.