Shopping Cart

rubyonrails-talk
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It appears that the only functional Rails shopping cart is Substruct. http://substruct.subimage.com/ There's boxcart but that looks dead.

Substruct is frozen against Rails 1.1.6. I'd prefer to work with something that works against edge Rails and uses REST. I also don't like the engine approach.

So, any thoughts on either forking or creating a new shopping cart? I'm at RailsConf if anyone wants to discuss this in person.

Joe Van Dyk

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Joe,

Sounds like maybe you've discovered an opportunity for an open source project.

- develop a plan - write some use cases - startup an open source project - get some code contributors

As for me I've never really been big on the "canned" solutions, for things like shopping carts. Rails makes them so easy to create that I would just make my own anyway. But, if there is a real need out there for this, then I would guess finding some contributors shouldn't be all that difficult.

Such projects just need an evangelist to organize and make them happen.

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Joe,

Sounds like maybe you've discovered an opportunity for an open source project.

- develop a plan - write some use cases - startup an open source project - get some code contributors

As for me I've never really been big on the "canned" solutions, for things like shopping carts. Rails makes them so easy to create that I would just make my own anyway. But, if there is a real need out there for this, then I would guess finding some contributors shouldn't be all that difficult.

Have you made a full-featured shopping cart application? They're not trivial to make. Rails does make it easy, but there's a lot involved regardless.

I figure that a well written shopping cart application would make a good starting point for a lot of people.

Joe

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I'm proud to announce the non-release of Tangamart! http://tangajoe.googlecode.com/svn/tangamart/

Go download it today!

Initial features will be what I need:

-- RESTful design. I need to be able to have this work with other systems. -- Integration with authorize.net and fedex. The design should make it possible to use Paypal, UPS, USPS, etc, but I'm not going to implement them. -- Uses rspec and zentest. Heavily tested. -- Very simple CMS.

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Good for you! I’ve got several ideas bouncing around in my head. I guess I just need to get on the ball and make them happen. Keep it up.

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Shh…

We’re readying a release that works on 1.2 and many new features will be announced in the coming months.

:wink:

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