Rails - Jul 2005 - are there any working paypal integration/payment gems?

I''m looking to process transactions on my site, and surely i''m
not the
first to have this need.
Are there any gems available (with success stories) that is easy to 
integrate into my application and that would handle the communication to 
some payment gateway (eg Paypal).
wouldn''t want to have to reinvent the wheel.
what is the best route to go?

thanks,

*:f*rancois

I have no success stories, but a simple

$ gem install payment
Attempting local installation of ''payment''
Local gem file not found: payment*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''payment''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Successfully installed payment-1.0.1
Installing RDoc documentation for payment-1.0.1...

did it for me ;)

Sascha

On 7/18/05, Francois Paul
<francois-VKbYeNyhmt9BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m looking to process transactions on my site, and surely
i''m not the
> first to have this need.
> Are there any gems available (with success stories) that is easy to
> integrate into my application and that would handle the communication to
> some payment gateway (eg Paypal).
> wouldn''t want to have to reinvent the wheel.
> what is the best route to go?
The payment ruby module is an Authorize.Net gateway: http://payment.rufy.com/

I don''t know if the paypal module has a more official page, but
there''s one available at http://dist.leetsoft.com/pkg/.

-- 
rick
http://techno-weenie.net

thanks,
i''ll check that out.

*:f*rancois

Sascha Ebach wrote:
> I have no success stories, but a simple
>
> $ gem install payment
> Attempting local installation of ''payment''
> Local gem file not found: payment*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of ''payment''
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Successfully installed payment-1.0.1
> Installing RDoc documentation for payment-1.0.1...
>
> did it for me ;)
>
> Sascha
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You should probably nail down what gateway you want/have to use first. The 
payment gem doesn''t do PayPal, though you could modify it to do so. I 
started down that path, but (from my hazy memory of it now) the design 
didn''t seem to fit with the PayPal process all that well. I think it
was due
to PayPal''s asynchronous nature vs. Authorizenet''s synchronous
one....maybe....

Anyway, I''ve had success with Tobi''s PayPal package (mentioned
above). I
launched a site with it July 1 and have had more than 125 payments without 
any problems, including paypal payments, echecks and credit card payments. 

I made a few changes, but it is very good if you want PayPal. I just added 
some more fields to the Notification object and didn''t use his helper
as I
wanted to go back to my controller from the view before going over to 
PayPal. (The helper generates a payment button to go to PayPal with your 
product info.) His IPN method worked very well with just a little 
customization to fit my app.

Let me know if you try it and have any questions on implementation.


-- 
Tom Wilcoxen
http://convergentarts.com
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