recaptcha succeeds on view but verify_recaptcha fails in ruby

[majuabir]

My recaptcha widget is works just fine in my frontend. I click it and I get the green checkmark, but invoking verify_recaptcha in my ruby code always returns false for some reason. I took the route of initializing my keys in config/initializers/recaptcha.rb

Recaptcha.configure do |config|
  config.site_key  = 'x'
  config.secret_key = 'y'
end

My test for the veryify_recaptcha goes like this

def captcha_test
    valid = false
    if verify_recaptcha == true
      valid = true
    end
    return valid
  end

I know this looks so redundant but I'm referencing a solution here #219 where jonathanrbowman would make a variable to hold the return of verify_recaptcha which seemed to work for him.

Are there any common mistakes I should consider?

[Michael Grosser]

• captcha_test makes no sense ... it's the same as verify_recaptcha
• print what it returns to see what's going on
• make sure you have the correct site keys and not just x and y
• inspect recaptcha_reply
• inspect Recaptcha.skip_env?
• open up the gem and step through https://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha/blob/284b2c79ac965ffbca7c6ceed99797a6cc268d53/lib/recaptcha/adapters/controller_methods.rb

[majuabir]

Got it figured out. <%=recaptcha_tags=> must be included in a form for it to work.

[AdamSQ1]

Got it figured out. <%=recaptcha_tags=> must be included in a form for it to work.

Thank you! I'd been scratching my head for ages trying to figure out why it wasn't working. You are 100% correct and as soon as I moved <%=recaptcha_tags=> into the form it worked perfectly!