From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T11:59:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [BOUNTY] Re: Shopping cart ...

Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> Aredridel wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:46 +0900, Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any good(secure) Ruby shopping cart program example? Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd put $100 up for anyone who would code and release under liberal 
>> license:
>>
>> * A shopping cart
>>   * that takes all data in from a post or URL
>>   * that requires no database at all, session storage excepted.
>>   * that runs as a CGI or FastCGI
>>   * that can use an XHTML file or a few as a template for output.
>>   * that has few dependencies, and can be deployed with no special
>> configuration beyond making generic CGI or FastCGI go on
>> $user[:webserverofchoice]
>>   * that would link to paypal at least for payment processing.
>>
>> Ari
>>
>>
>>
> Is it because Ruby a) can't handle such application, b) not ready for 
> that type of apps because of performance and/or security, c) too hard to 
> implement(perhaps PHP is better for this type of apps), d) no one is 
> willing to share the scripts , e) or any that I can't think of.

It's for sure NOT a) NOT b) and NOT c).

I've written a simple Online-Shop example in the Ruby Developers Guide 
book, using different toolkits (plain CGI, FastCGI, mod_ruby, Iowa) etc. 
with no other dependencies than Ruby IIRC.... no wait, I believe I used 
a database as backend, but it's even easier to leave the DB out.

Have a look at Borges. It comes with SushiNet, as simple online-store.

Regards,

   Michael