Building a store

I just finished watching the video of Building the Store from ClickableBliss, which explains why Mike Zornek build his own web store, and what he learned.

My notes from the presentation:

• ELC Technologies RoR::PayPal - not a complete interface, doesn't provide express checkout, which is essential


• vPayPal gem : never got it to work, seemed to have deficiencies, used as a reference


• Tobias Lutke's PayPal gem - not specific to websites payment pro, related to instant payments


• ActiveMerchant : couldn't get certain things related to PayPal to work, code submitted by contributor, not maintained. But it's now 1.0 and may work better.


• SOAP : not used SOAP before, but was the eventual solution


• These experiences were from about August 2006.


• If you're going to accept confidential information in a Rails application, make sure you don't log it:
  

  
  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  filter_parameter_logging "password"
  filter_parameter_logging "credit_card"
  end

  
  

Sorry if I'm cryptic - the video is worth watching :-)