From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T19:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Implementing an Online Book Store

> I will be implementing a medium sized online book store over the next 
> few months.  I would like to do most(if not all) of the backend in 
> ruby.  I don't have any real experience building large database driven 
> online stores so I was hoping for some suggestions as to which 
> frameworks/libraries might prove useful.  I am currently planning on 
> using mysql to store everything and paypal for payments.

I know that there's at least a couple of people working on shops with 
Rails. So if you do have a look at Rails be sure to hang out in 
#rubyonrails to get up to speed quickly and share tips with other 
railers.

I'm also just on the verge of implementing a nice PayPal IPN wrapper 
for Rails as I'm using PayPal myself for a new project. I've been 
thinking about releasing the Authorize.net wrapper that we used for 
Basecamp as well.

Anyway, lots of choices for doing what you're looking for in Ruby. 
Beside the options that Kirk mentioned, there's also Borges, which uses 
that cool continuations stuff. I don't know if it's yet in a state that 
you want to base a production app on, but their highlight example is 
exactly a checkout processs for a shop.
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