Hi Rails folks. I have a client who has been running oscommerce for many years. And I, back in that day, helped him deploy it. I have deployed over 40 oscommerce installations and done 1000+ hours of customizing for various folks. Not that I am an expert, but at least you know I''ve suffered. His store really hums now. But he hates the bloat of oscommerce, and the mingling of controller logic with presentation. Anybody who has messed with oscommerce knows what I''m talking about. And there are still bugs deep in the oscommerce code that surface sometimes. This client is a computer science guy, but he has a head for business. He has to run the shop and doesn''t have time to develop code. The other day I showed him rails. We spent a few days and he loved it. His question now is: What solutions are out there for his store in rails-land? I''ve poked around substruct and it is nice, but it has no paypal support, which is a must. Shopify is grand, but they shield you from the database and code, and we want to be able to tweak. Any recommendations? First of all, he is willing to hire someone to do it from scratch if that is the best option. Is that the best option? -------------- One thing he dreams of is to have one database that keeps track of product inventories and descriptions, and be able to deploy multiple stores that sell items from that one database. Has anyone done anything like this? Has anyone ever built a rails shopping cart / store that could coexist with oscommerce, i.e, use the same database? Your thoughts and wisdom are greatly appreciated. Eventually I will need to hire someone, and if anyone has any ideas about the best way to go about that, I would be grateful. Phil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Thorsten Mueller
2008-Jan-08 19:51 UTC
Re: Rails Solutions for E-commerce / Oscommerce / who to hir
hi, our company 80beans has just released https://shop.ethnicchic.nl/ at the moment i''m implementing paypal (via: triple deal payment services), which was not that difficult, since tdps has an easy to use interface (i didn''t use paypal directly, but would assume, that they have something on the line, too, after all, you send them a few numbers by https and get an ok or errors) but it''s not using oscommerce in any form, just a simple shopping cart thing another thing i''ve seen was "active merchant", a plugin that may help you http://www.activemerchant.org/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---