Any questions for me about e-commerce in Rails?
On Monday, February 26, I’ll be presenting one half of the Philly on Rails meeting dedicated to e-commerce. I offered to do the talk since I’ve done a few e-commerce projects over the years (some Rails, some PHP), including my own custom store which sells Billable. After I give the talk I’m planning re-recording my thoughts as a screencast so this call for feedback is not just for the locals.
What I’d like to know, is what you’d like to know. Help me design my talk by posting a comment with the questions you are hoping can get answered. Thanks a lot.
Posted on: February 20, 2007 – 8:29 pm
7 Comments
I’d love to see a screencast of what you’ve done. I guess for me as a learning rails developer any info or general recommendations are useful. I’m a little curios how your store works… is there any “shopping cart”, or is the entire order just gathered up via applescript on the client and all sent off as a one time post to your site?
I’m really interested to find out more about shipping. The Shipping GEM leaves out USPS, which is a huge piece. I would love to see something on extending the Shipping gem, or any other method of providing USPS shipping.
Sweet, good idea.
I’d like to hear you talk about how to deal with / design a subscription type recurring billing system for users in a Rails app (like basecamp/blinksale). What are the options out there, best plugins/gems to use, merchants that process/handle recurring transactions better than others etc.
I’d also love to see a screencast or get a podcast of it if possible.
I’d like to hear about how you approached PayPal integration with Rails. What did you use for the SOAP messaging, and why you chose that approach as opposed to ActiveMerchant?
I’m also interested in any setup/configuration you needed to do like setting up SSL for the payment pages.
I’m looking forward to the talk as well as the screencast.
As a customer of yours I was impressed with the easy of use of the store. In your blog you wrote that you planned to release this as open source, do you still plan to do this?
@Kevin: I’ve considered it, but it would need some more work to be useful to anyone else; still lots of Clickable Bliss business logic is assumed. It’s one of a few projects on my wishlist right now. Thanks for the interest.
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