On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to implement a very simple shopping cart functionality to
> my application, just selecting some products and saving them as an
> order. Only logged in users will be able to 'checkout' and send
> through the order, but apart from that, I do not need credit card
> processing, inventory tracking, shipping, coupons or any other
> complicated e-commerce features.
>
> What do you recommend?
> I have the options of:
>
> 1) Using some of the poorly-documented available gems:
> (http://rubygems.org/search?_snowman=%E2%98%83&query=cart)

(Unrelated: somewhat of a shock that rubygems.org is already running
on Rails 3 - the _snowman is a giveaway)

Anyways, this will probably not be a good idea.

>
> 2) Spree? Has anyone used it with Hobo?
> (spreecommerce.com/)
>

Spree is a good system, but vastly overkill for your needs. Never
tried using it with Hobo, but it should mostly work...

> 3) Writing it myself from scratch. (100% session based or database-
> driven?)

You might want to try adapting the AWDWRv3 Depot app cart to your
needs; it's not particularly complicated. Ultimately, all you really
need for a basic "pick products and put quantity X in cart" is a hash
in the session (product_id => quantity).

--Matt Jones

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