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I needed Captcha in a Rails app recently and found a great tutorial on the web. It was easy to add and use once we got RMagic installed. But RMagic was horrible... but that's another blog entry.

I used this page to add the Captcha bits. It's a nice write up. Just follow the directions and you'll be up and running.

However, the Captcha plugin broke a few of our automated tests. So I started to dig in again, but then found another page on the web. I love it when someone else solves a problem for me.

Here's the solution to the Captcha interfering with your tests. I opted for the solution in the comments. I used this line:

validates_captcha :if => Proc.new {|u| ENV['RAILS_ENV'] != 'test'}

Jared