You can make a add to cart link anywhere on the site that points to the store controllers add function... If you are showing products on the front page you can just do a link_to "Add to Cart", add_product_store_path(@product) or something like that..
Maybe you should also have a look at these to stores that have some good functionality http://github.com/railsdog/spree/ http://github.com/twenrich/substruct/ On Aug 22, 9:40 am, louposk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alpha Blue, > i havent found either any kind of shopping cart plugin. > Now, you said that you have used the shopping cart from agile rails. > My main problem with that cart, is that it works only inside the store > controller. I want to change this. For example, i want to be able to > add products, when i show each product details. Where should i move > all this functionality that is inside the store_controller??? I > thought of the application_controller but i dont think is a good idea. > What do you think???? > I havent found any sollution for this thats because i am searching for > a plugin. > > Cheers kostas > > On Aug 22, 7:10 pm, Alpha Blue <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Kostas Lps wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > i want to implement a shopping cart i my application for ordering > > > books (this will > > > work only in localhost not in production). Is there any tutorial > > > explaining how can this be done?? Or any good plugin with > > > instructions??? > > > > I dont want to use shopping cart from the book Agile Web Development > > > with rails because its too complicated. Anything else that you can > > > suggest me?? > > > > Thanx in advance > > > Kostas L. > > > That one is actually a fairly easy shopping cart to implement. There > > are a lot of things you need to consider before reaching out for this. > > > You have to consider what payment gateway you will be using, whether or > > not it will be encrypted or not, how you will handle cart sessions when > > they leave your site and return. > > > It's not an easy thing to do. I started with the shopping cart from > > agile rails, changed and manipulated it for my own ideas, and a good IPN > > gateway screencast are the episodes 141 - 143 from Ryan Bates at > > railscasts.com. > > > I would like to say that if you feel the agile rails shopping cart is > > complicated, you may indeed be in for some issues trying to implement > > any shopping cart at all. And, there are very few shopping cart > > tutorials out there but a lot of payment gateway tutorials. > > > I'm not aware of any plugin for shopping carts. > > -- > > Posted viahttp://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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
