Asp Forum - ecommerce and ruby (tclink

Ara.T.Howard

11/6/2004 5:16:00 PM

2 Answers

Aredridel

11/8/2004 7:39:00 PM

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:23:40 +0900, Ara.T.Howard <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> i have never developed any code that deals with ecommerce whatsoever. are
> ruby developers out there using
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/proje...
>
> ?? seems all i can find on the raa. is it crazy to do this yourself, or is
> this type of site functionality better farmed out to an existing web service?
> do any of the ruby web framworks deal with this issue directly?

I've not used it, though I'm writing my own packages for doing
financial stuff, including electronic commerce.

I think a lot of the problem stems from the fact that there are many
and varied poorly documented standards, and none of the web services
use them.

I'm a happy authorize.net customer, and their post-based interface is
relatively simple, so one can home-brew something adequate rather
easily.

For other services, there's other web-services interfaces -- Paypal
has one, Authorize.net has another, and all the other processors make
their own too.

Then there's the old over-the-wire VITAL protocol, which I haven't
seen a non-commercial implementation of yet, ever, in any language.

I do plan to release my code eventually, when it stabilizes.

Ara.T.Howard

11/8/2004 8:20:00 PM

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