Oh, good idea....Thanks Colin, tunnel-vision sucks, I'd have never thought of that.
On Aug 1, 12:04 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 August 2011 16:56, bertly_the_coder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have an interesting problem that I'm trying to wrap my head around. > > > I'm creating a subscription based service that will charge extra for > > premium products. What does this mean?...ok, let's say I've created a > > subscription based service that allows you to get any 5 standard > > magazines of your choice shipped to you per month, where a standard > > magazine is any magazine that costs less than $7.99. Magazines more > > expensive than that are considered premium. > > > Now if a subscriber selects a standard magazine, this is fine, the > > order is created and the magazine is shipped, this order falls within > > the terms of the subscription. However, if the subscriber selects a > > premium magazIne, then I have to charge them the difference of the > > magazine price from 7.99. So if they order a magazine worth 9.99, I > > have to charge them 2 bucks, etc etc. > > > Now, I can't figure out where to put this logic check. What I've > > started with was this. I created another controller method to check > > the price, if it's standard, send to the create method(is that even > > possible??). If the magazine price is high, I redirect to a confirm > > page then back to the create method....this means that I have to store > > my order in a session, right? Which just seems like over kill. > > Add it to the order in the normal way but mark it as not confirmed, > then get the user to confirm it (or not). > > Colin > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone had a problem like this before? How did you go about > > solving it? > > > Thanks a bunch in advance, > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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.
