On 23 Nov 2010, at 16:33, A Faraday wrote: > First NWRUG post, I'm working on an online shop, but before I start on > the actual transfer system, does anyone know the best way to do paypal > transactions from rails 3? > > Would be helpful to know the best gems/plugins for the job.
Short version: define "paypal transactions". Paypal offer multiple payment routes, and they all - annoyingly - require slightly different implementations. Basically it comes down to Express Checkout, Website Payments Standard and Website Payments Pro. Define which one you want, and any pointers can be more specific. Deciding can be problematic, but if you have no trading history, you can strike off Payments Pro now. At the day job we've pretty much rolled our own around Express Checkout as we wanted tight control over some of the flows and we're dealing with mobile devices making payments so need to do some weird stuff. It's actually not that difficult once you know *which* API documentation you should be looking at, but over the last couple of months Paypal have made it more difficult than they could have by changing/deprecating some products and being rubbish at describing what's going on. If you want a quick "it works" solution however, active_merchant is pretty solid. I liked Chargify, but it's only now that free customers aren't charged for that they're realistic. The downside with them is the need to get merchant accounts and Payment Express set up if you're in the UK... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-memb...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
