#65 Stopping Spam with Akismet
Aug 06, 2007 | 11 minutes |
The Railscasts site has been getting a lot of comment spam in the past, but no longer. In this episode I will show you how I solved this problem by using the Akismet web service.
Fast Rails Commands
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(8 minutes)
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Memcached is an excellent cache store, and Dalli is the best way to interact with it through Ruby. Here I show various ways to use Memcached in a Rails app including how to set it up in production.
(12 minutes)
Trinidad
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Monit
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(16 minutes)
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(12 minutes)
