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I got uninitialised constant MyController::Rakismet
Also the generator didn't work, I had to create the initialiser manually.
No biggy I'll roll my own Akismet solution, just thought it might be helpful if you mention what versions this gem works with.

Hi Josh:

I'm trying to implement Rakismet 0.4.2 in my Rails 2.3.14 app. I'm getting the following error after clicking "submit request" from my offerings#show view, the page from which our clients submit ProjectRequests (analogous to a blog_post view from which readers would submit comments):

SocketError (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known):
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inopen'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:intimeout'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in timeout' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inconnect'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:instart'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:440:in start' rakismet (0.4.2) lib/rakismet.rb:39:inakismet_call'
rakismet (0.4.2) lib/rakismet/model.rb:45:in spam?' app/models/project_request.rb:59:incheck_for_spam'
app/controllers/users/project_requests_controller.rb:26:in `create'
....

I'm running the app on my development server (http://localhost:3000). I'm connected to the Internet.

I've got the following in my ProjectRequest.rb model:

    class ProjectRequest < ActiveRecord::Base

    include AccountingMethods
    include CurrencyMethods
    include Rakismet::Model

    attr_accessible :title, :details, :budget, :provider_id, :offering_id, :offering_quantity, :request_type_id,
                    :accepted_date, :declined_date, :cancelled_date, :archived_by_user, :archived_by_provider, :workflow_state

    validates_presence_of :title, :details, :request_type_id
    validates_presence_of :budget, :if => :is_hourly?
    validates_numericality_of :budget_number, :greater_than_or_equal_to => 1, :if => :is_hourly?,
                              :message => "must be at least 0.01."

    has_one :project
    has_one :payable_item
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :provider
    belongs_to :offering
    belongs_to :offering_type, :foreign_key => :request_type_id

    before_create :check_for_spam

    def author
      self.user.login || "John Smith"
    end

    def author_email
      self.user.email || "[email protected]"
    end

    def comment_type
      "project_request"
    end

    def content
      self.title + ' ' + self.details
    end

    def permalink
      base = 'http://www.genlighten.com'
      if self.offering_id
        offering_title = self.offering.title.slugorize
        base + '/offerings/' + offering_title
      else
        provider_login = self.provider.login
        base + '/provider_profiles/' + provider_login
      end
    end

# following two methods from Ryan Bates' Railscast #65 "Stopping Spam with Akismet"
    def request=(request)
      self.user_ip     = request.remote_ip
      self.user_agent  = request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
      self.referrer    = request.env['HTTP_REFERER']
    end

    def check_for_spam
      self.akismet_approved = !self.spam?
      puts "akismet response = #{self.akismet_response}"
      true
    end```

And the following snippet comes from the top of my project_requests_controller.rb: (the if @project_request.save line is line 26 in the error message above). This controller processes creation of a project request when the user clicks "submit request" on the offerings#show request submission form.

```Ruby/Rails
class Users::ProjectRequestsController < ApplicationController

    include UserMethods
    include CartMethods
    include ProjectRequestMethods
    include ProviderMethods

    layout 'new_default'

    before_filter :login_required
    before_filter :get_user_from_user_id
    before_filter :check_user_access
    before_filter :recover_cart, :only => :update
    before_filter :get_project_request, :only => [ :convert, :show, :update ]
    before_filter :get_offering_from_offering_id, :only => [ :create ]
    before_filter :get_provider_for_project_request, :only => :show
    before_filter :get_provider_from_provider_id, :only => [ :create ]
    before_filter :get_project_for_project_request, :only => [ :show, :update ]

    helper_method :sort_column, :sort_direction


    def create
      @project_request = @user.project_requests.build(params[:project_request])
      @project_request.request = request
      if @project_request.save
        if @project_request.akismet_approved?
          redirect_to convert_user_project_request_path(@user,@project_request)
        else
          # email admin that we've received a spam project_request
          flash[:error] = "We were unable to submit your request. Please contact Genlighten Support at (302)566-5871."
          redirect_to root_path
        end
      else
        flash[:error] = "Failed to submit your request #{@project_request.title}."
        get_offering_for_project_request
        @page_title = "#{@offering.title} | Genlighten"
        get_provider_for_project_request
        get_provider_feedback_summary
        render 'offerings/show'
      end    
    end```

And my config/initializers/rakismet.rb file contains these lines:

Rakismet::KEY = GlobalConfig.rakismet_key
Rakismet::URL = GlobalConfig.rakismet_url
Rakismet::HOST = GlobalConfig.rakismet_host

while my global_config.yml file contains the following:

  # Key and url for use with rakismet gem and Akismet anti-spam API access
  rakismet_key: 'my_akismet_key'
  rakismet_url: 'http://www.genlighten.com'
  rakismet_host: 'http://akismet.com/'

Can you offer any advice or suggestions? I'm guessing I haven't given rakismet the right parameters to find akismet to process the API there?

Thanks very much!

Dean Richardson (still a Rails novice, obviously)
Genlighten.com

I am using Rakismet(1.5.3) gem in my Rails(3.2.22) project. Rakismet validates attributes such as author, author_email, author_url, content by default.

My question: I want to validate extra columns in model like post tile, post summary, post content.I tried to merge the post title, post content and post summary and assigned to content field.

post.rb

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Rakismet::Model
  belongs_to :user

  rakismet_attrs  :author => proc { user.full_name }, 
                           :author_email => proc { user.email }
                           :content => :post_detail

  #Virtual attribute
  def post_detail
    "#{title} #{summary} #{content}"
  end
end

It didn't work as expected viz didn't throw any spam errors even though title, content and summary had spam text(viagra-test-123).
I have also tried Proc :content => proc { "#{title} #{summary} #{content}" }, but no result.

It is working only when we assign title/summary separately to rakismet's content attribute as :content => :title

I don't know Ruby all that well, but it appears that the permalink parameter is actually being sent as comment_permalink, based on its inclusion in arrays like the one at

it "should have default mappings" do
    [:comment_type, :author, :author_email, :author_url, :content, :permalink].each do |field|
      fieldname = field.to_s =~ %r(^comment_) ? field : "comment_#{field}".intern
      AkismetModel.akismet_attrs[fieldname].should eql(field)
     end
    AkismetModel::akismet_attrs[:user_role].should eql(:user_role)
end

Can you confirm whether this is the case, and if so, just send the value in the permalink argument?

Error happens on this line, when I'm trying to call .spam? on a comment:
@post.comments << @comment unless @comment.spam?

Only happens on comments with UTF-8 characters.

Stack trace:
/home/monk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/cgi/util.rb:7:in `gsub'

/home/monk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/cgi/util.rb:7:in `escape'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet.rb:65:in `block (2 levels) in akismet_call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet.rb:65:in `each'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet.rb:65:in `map'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet.rb:65:in `block in akismet_call'

/home/monk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:627:in `start'

/home/monk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:490:in `start'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet.rb:64:in `akismet_call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet/model.rb:37:in `spam?'

app/controllers/blog_controller.rb:127:in `comment'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/implicit_render.rb:4:in `send_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:150:in `process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/rendering.rb:11:in `process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/abstract_controller/callbacks.rb:18:in `block in process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:450:in `_run__2145909047847877237__process_action__3443656973696802015__callbacks'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:409:in `_run_process_action_callbacks'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:93:in `run_callbacks'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/abstract_controller/callbacks.rb:17:in `process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:30:in `block in process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `block in instrument'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:21:in `instrument'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:52:in `instrument'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb:29:in `process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/rescue.rb:17:in `process_action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:119:in `process'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:41:in `process'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal.rb:138:in `dispatch'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal/rack_delegation.rb:14:in `dispatch'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_controller/metal.rb:178:in `block in action'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:62:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:62:in `dispatch'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:27:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-mount-0.6.13/lib/rack/mount/route_set.rb:148:in `block in call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-mount-0.6.13/lib/rack/mount/code_generation.rb:93:in `block in recognize'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-mount-0.6.13/lib/rack/mount/code_generation.rb:89:in `optimized_each'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-mount-0.6.13/lib/rack/mount/code_generation.rb:92:in `recognize'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-mount-0.6.13/lib/rack/mount/route_set.rb:139:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/routing/route_set.rb:492:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rakismet-1.0.1/lib/rakismet/middleware.rb:10:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/haml-3.0.25/lib/sass/plugin/rack.rb:41:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/best_standards_support.rb:17:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/head.rb:14:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:24:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/params_parser.rb:21:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/flash.rb:182:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:149:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/cookies.rb:302:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activerecord-3.0.4/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:32:in `block in call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activerecord-3.0.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:28:in `cache'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activerecord-3.0.4/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:12:in `cache'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activerecord-3.0.4/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:31:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activerecord-3.0.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:354:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:46:in `block in call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/activesupport-3.0.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:415:in `_run_call_callbacks'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:44:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/sendfile.rb:107:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/remote_ip.rb:48:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/actionpack-3.0.4/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:47:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/railties-3.0.4/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:13:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in `block in call'

:

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/rack-1.2.1/lib/rack/lock.rb:11:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/railties-3.0.4/lib/rails/application.rb:168:in `call'

[GEM_ROOT]/gems/railties-3.0.4/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:96:in `process_request'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:513:in `accept_and_process_next_request'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:274:in `main_loop'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:205:in `start_request_handler'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:170:in `block in handle_spawn_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:479:in `safe_fork'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:165:in `handle_spawn_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `server_main_loop'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:in `start_synchronously'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:180:in `start'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:128:in `start'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:253:in `block (2 levels) in spawn_rack_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:132:in `lookup_or_add'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:246:in `block in spawn_rack_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:82:in `block in synchronize'

:

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:79:in `synchronize'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:244:in `spawn_rack_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:137:in `spawn_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:275:in `handle_spawn_application'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in `server_main_loop'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:in `start_synchronously'

/home/monk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/passenger-3.0.2/helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server:99:in `

(hi Josh!)

The readme says:

This means that if you are not storing the request variables, you must call spam? from within the controller action that handles comment submissions. That way the IP, user agent, and referer will belong to the person submitting the comment.

I chased user_ip around the code in a loop and am too stupid to figure out how a model can have access to the request environment. Where does this happen?

I'm wondering if it's possible to deactivate Rakismet in certain Rails environments. When running the test suite or when there's no internet connection available, I would like Rakismet just to return "not spam" all the time.

I've already looked through the code, but couldn't find a satisfying solution? An option in the environment files (such as config.rakismet.perform = :test # or :live) would be a nice a solution.

What do you think?

I noticed the readme makes reference to sending the permalink:

permalink     : the permanent URL for the entry the comment belongs to

But then it's never used in the actual code.

Is it possible to turnoff rakismet in tests so that it wouldn't connect to akismet for real, and just return what I explicitly want?

The railtie require doesn't work pre rails 3. Blows up as follows:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 :004 > require 'rakismet' 
MissingSourceFile: no such file to load -- rails
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'

Is it possible to list the required values in the README? I'm not a regular Akismet user, so it took a little bit of work and looking and the akismet_responses to figure out what fields were needed. As far as I can tell, the following values need to be populated:

• author
• author_email
• content
• user_ip
• user_agent

Just thinking of how to make the gem more approachable from a novice's standpoint.

Hi, first of all cool gem !
I have some doubts about how or where define akismet attributes when dealing with these 2 models:

class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :messages
   accepts_nested_attributes_for :messages
end

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :conversation
   attr_accessor :body, ...
end

My idea is to call spam? before calling Conversation.save in my ConversationsController.
The problem is that I don't know how match asktmet "content" attribute with Message.body

Should I do something like:

class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :messages
   accepts_nested_attributes_for :messages
   include Rakismet::Model
   rakismet_attrs :content => => proc { message.body } # ??????????
end

Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I have forced spam? = true by using :author => "viagra-test-123". That's ok, I'm getting true
Is there a way to set/force other comments as true ?
I have tried in the console:

@comment = Comment.find(1) As you know I'm storing user_ip, user_agent and referrer in my model :)
@comment.spam? # false
@comment.spam! # true
@comment.akismet_response # "false" Why do I get "false" here ???!!!
@comment.spam? # true Ok, I'm happy with this true, but:
@comment = Comment.find(1)
@comment.spam? # false Ouch! WHY? I had set it to true before using spam!...

Thanks in advance.

ps: using raskimet 0.4.2, rails 2.3.5, ruby 1.8.7

It seems like rakismet don't work now.

I submit author to 'viagra-test-123' and get nothing!

It seems akismet API was changed: http://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check

Now we need comment_author instead of author et.c.

Would be possible to inherit rakismet config to subclasses?

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
   rakismet_attrs :author => proc { user.full_name }
end

class DiscussionTopic < Comment
end

DiscussionTopic.akismet_attrs
=> nil

Workaround:

class DiscussionTopic < Comment
   self.akismet_attrs = base_class.akismet_attrs.dup
end

Right now akismet as a a service supports unicode urls but this gem doesn't support unicode URLs. This is happening because ruby's URI parse supports only ASCII characters

example: blog_url: "https://www.example.com/हिंदीकामकररहेहैंयानहीं"

I'm getting uninitialized constant Contact::Rakismet

Any clues?

Message me if you need additional info.

When using Rails libraries without rails itself, the Rails top level constant is defined but Rails.version is not, so the check on this line: https://github.com/joshfrench/rakismet/blob/master/lib/rakismet.rb#L45 causes NoMethodError.

This occurred for me and I had to reopen the Rails module and manually define self.version as a temporary workaround. I was using ActionMailer and ActiveRecord but not the Rails gem itself.

Hi,

I am using Rakismet plugin in my Rails application to check a comment is spam or not.
I am using typepad api for that.

configurations in my initializer and model:

Rakismet::KEY = '8ef8ccb04d9c1f0049041c86371982a6'
Rakismet::URL = 'http://www.postonline.co.uk/'
Rakismet::HOST = 'api.antispam.typepad.com'

has_rakismet
:author => :user_name,
:author_url => :author_url,
:author_email => :email,
:comment_type => :status,
:content => :description,
:permalink => :permalink,
:user_ip => :ip_address,
:referrer => :referrer

I felt that i am doing mistake some where, since i always got the spam response ( @comment.spam? => 'false' ) as false, even if i submit @comment as spam ( @comment.spam! ),
So i tried to trace the rakismet plugin. I got some results while tracing.

  def validate_key
    validate_constants
    akismet = URI.parse(verify_url)
    _, valid = Net::HTTP.start(akismet.host) do |http|
      data = "key=#{Rakismet::KEY}&blog=#{Rakismet::URL}"
      http.post(akismet.path, data, Rakismet::HEADERS)
    end
    self.valid_key = (valid == 'valid')
  end

verify_url => "http://api.antispam.typepad.com/1.1/verify-key"

data => "key=8ef8ccb04d9c1f0049041c86371982a6&blog=http://www.postonline.co.uk/"

Rakismet::HEADERS => {"Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "User-Agent"=>"Rails/2.2.2 | Rakismet/0.3.5"}

_, result = http.post(akismet.path, data, Rakismet::HEADERS)
result => 'valid'

As per my configuration in initializer i can sure that my api key is valid, since validate_key method returns true. And i have got this key from typepad site.

If i write wrong key ( like Rakismet::KEY = 'bangalore is a great city' ) also i am getting the same positive response ( validate_key => true )

also,

@comment.akismet_response => always 'false'
@comment.spam! => "Feedback received."
@comment.spam!? => 'false'

I am using Rails 2.2.2 and Rakismet 0.3.5.

Where i am doing mistake?

Thanks in advance.

With Regards,

Manoj

Hello,

I'm using rakismet with some customized parameters.

has_rakismet :author => proc { user.dispname },
           :author_email => proc { user.email },
           :author_url => proc { user.website },
           :comment_type => proc { 'comment' },

However when I'm like that, I get the following error from Akismet : "Missing required field: user_ip.".
But I have a user_ip field in my model, which is appropriately filled.

When I declare the following in my model :

has_rakismet :author => proc { user.dispname },
           :author_email => proc { user.email },
           :author_url => proc { user.website },
           :comment_type => proc { 'comment' },
           :user_ip => :user_ip,
           :user_agent => :user_agent,
           :referrer => :referrer

It works well.
So I guess when we customize some elements, Rakismet isn't able to take the other ones by itself.

I tried to send user_role parameter to Askimet, but it actually sends 'comment_user_role'.

rakismet_attrs :author => proc { user.full_name },
:author_email => proc { user.email },
:content => :body,
:user_ip => proc { user.current_sign_in_ip },
:user_role => 'administrator',
:comment_type => 'blog-post'

Even I set user_role as 'administrator', it returns true. This is because of https://github.com/joshfrench/rakismet/blob/master/lib/rakismet/model.rb#L17, which converts 'user_role' to 'comment_user_role'.

Most other clients send "comment" in the "comment_type" field for comments; rakismet sends "comment_type" instead. This isn't technically an error, but for consistency it would be nice to fix.

From http://akismet.com/development/api/:
comment_type
May be blank, comment, trackback, pingback, or a made up value like "registration".

Hi,
I read that you have to store optional request variables if you want to process your comments in a later stage.
It means that I have to save user_ip, user_agent and referrer in one of my models.

1. How and when should I store these values in my model. How do I get them ?
2. is there a standard way to define my table fields or do I have to create them with a migration ?
3. How should I store or set other vars like: permalink and author_url ? Should I store these 2 in my model as well ?

Thanks !