Madison Rails
captcha test page

Test the BrainBuster captcha here!

Brainbuster simple logic captcha plugin for Rails. Yes, it could be defeated with scripting, but so can many image captchas. We are just looking to eliminate the vast majority of spam that comes from being an easy target.

Nifty, it apparently accepts the result of math logic as words. However, this can be automated quite easily by using Google most often than not. Example 2 Hello Excellent, because if there’s one way humans are superior to computers it’s logic! ;)

It does seem to work for me. Don’t forget to edit if you want to use the test! jkljk;l What captcha are you using? Is it the validates_captcha plugin? — No, its BrainBuster.

Once I have provided the captcha answer, I am no longer asked for another one the next time I want to post. Nice feature or bug? I assume you set some flag in the session, but that will require user to have enabled cookies, right? — Its a feature – it saves it in the cookie. You can disable that, of course.


Shiney! I wonder how long before natural language processors will be able to parse and crack things like this. More or less time than neural network image processing.. (which is already done to a small extent by spammers, from what I understand).

Interesting ….

Interesante ….

No wonder!