From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T16:42:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [BOUNTY] Re: Shopping cart ...

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:31 +0900, 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.

None of the above. Just hasn't been done in anything but a one-off sort
of way that I've seen. 

So ... d). Sorta.