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Protecting your website forms and visitors from spam

Posted Sat Jan 31 at 05:37 PM by Kip — 6 comments

If a blog post receives a good amount of attention from humans, it will also start getting attention from spam bots and scrapers. This puts both your website content and your contributing visitors at risk of being spammed.


Sending tons of emails in Ruby on Rails with ar_mailer

Posted Thu Aug 07 at 03:30 PM by Kip — 61 comments

So you've had some success using sendmail to send one-off emails like order receipts, password reset confirmations and welcome letters. But what happens when you need to be able to send 5,000 newsletter emails to your entire contact database?


Recurring tasks in Ruby on Rails using runner and cron jobs

Posted Thu Jul 03 at 03:08 PM by Kip — 26 comments

If you have a website that has a need for nightly database maintenance, Rails provides a very simple solution for interacting with your application on a recurring schedule. It's a script called "runner" and is amazingly simple to use.