From: Ara.T.Howard@... Date: 2004-11-09T05:33:35+09:00 Subject: Re: ecommerce and ruby (tclink) On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Aredridel wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:23:40 +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote: >> >> i have never developed any code that deals with ecommerce whatsoever. are >> ruby developers out there using >> >> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/tclink/ >> >> ?? 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. please keep me in the loop when you get there - the project i have in mind is very, very simple but will require doing credit card transations from ruby. it will probably be back-burnered for a few months but i will be evaluating things until then. kind regards. -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good | bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki ===============================================================================