Tired of comment spam? Let Akismet take care of it for you.
Josh French just wrote in that there is a new Ruby on Rails Akismet project on Ruby Forge. He says, “It’s a tiny bit smarter about grabbing some request info from the environment and more flexible when taking arguments to the public functions. Installs into the plugins dir rather than lib/, for maximum Railsyness.”
Anything with maximum Railsyness is A+ in my book.
Just got a great testimonial from Kristie MacLaughlin:
I started getting hit with spam about two weeks ago, and was horrifed to watch it grow exponentially by the hour. I have my comments forwarded to my Blackberry, and it almost shut down my service! I found out about Akismet from a friend, and installed it immediately.
I cannot believe the difference! In two weeks, it was caught over 4000 spam comments! It is absolutely amazing. I cannot thank you enough for making this service available. Spam almost caused me to shut down my blog, but now, I can express myself again without having to spend most of my blogging time deleting spam.
I love Akismet! I will recommend it to EVERYONE I know.
Kristie, it’s our pleasure. Thanks for your kind words.
Some people had been reporting Akismet sending a blank response instead of the expected “false.” We tracked down this bug earlier today and squashed it, and in our monitoring since then haven’t seen it pop back up. Special thanks to Rom Walton, Aaron Swartz, Barnaby Scott for helping track down the issue.
Timothy Appnel has graciously updated the Movable Type plugin to fix the issue we blogged about before.
You can download the latest version of the plugin here. (Version 1.03.)
