37signals Getting Real purchase system, credit card check

Rails
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Hi all,

quick question

does anyone know what 37signals is using on

I’m assuming it’s a basic Rails backend … but what I really like is
the
credit card / cart simplicity – and instant checking?

No idea how that would be done … third-party system on the backend
(ocCommerce? authorize.net?) or just some bank-API

Any thoughts appreciated!

–
Chris E.
System Solutions Specialist

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I don’t think they are using Rails. If you point your browser at
Getting Real
you’ll get a page. I think that means they run the site on PHP.

Oh my, is this is a worrisome sign about Rails?

3

I don’t think they are using Rails. If you point your browser at
Getting Real
you’ll get a page. I think that means they run the site on PHP.

Oh my, is this is a worrisome sign about Rails?

No… somewhere DHH has said that one should use the best tool for the
job… I actually specifically remmeber him mentioning their site…
that
PHP was enough and Rails would have been overkill or some such…

Probably along the lines of “if it works, why change it?”

Of course, I could be totally wrong too :slight_smile:

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On Feb 8, 11:12 pm, Philip H. [email protected] wrote:

I don’t think they are using Rails. If you point your browser at
Getting Real
you’ll get a page. I think that means they run the site on PHP.

Oh my, is this is a worrisome sign about Rails?

No… somewhere DHH has said that one should use the best tool for the
job… I actually specifically remmeber him mentioning their site… that
PHP was enough and Rails would have been overkill or some such…

They’ve said several times that they use PHP for individual pages and
things were they just need a few includes or whatever, and a full-
blown Rails app would be overkill. I believe the SVN blog used to run
on Movable Type, generating PHP pages to add some dynamic elements, or
something like that. Chances are they’re using PHP for the info and
content pages of the Getting Real site too. Makes perfect sense to me.

But the purchase app at Getting Real
is very clearly Rails based – just have a peek at some of the HTML
that’s been generated.

Chris

5

The source to Getting Real looks
like bog standard Rails to me. Naming conventions, multi attribute
date assignments, the lot…

If memory serves me well, before DHH started Rails at 37signals, they
were a PHP shop. He did some PHP cosulting for them, but they moved
to ruby after that. The index.php might be remnants of that time.

No idea about the CC backend by the way…

-christos

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On Feb 9, 8:39 am, “Chris E.” [email protected] wrote:

(ocCommerce? authorize.net?) or just some bank-API

Any thoughts appreciated!

–
Chris E.
System Solutions Specialist

Shopify released their backed framework for CC processing under the
name ActiveMerchant (Too-biased).

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Hi Chris, please understand that 37signals is a company and the
information that you’re requesting maybe proprietary.

-Conrad

8

Ha, yeah, I know that

I just figured if someone knew what systems they were running …
wasn’t
trying to steal any inside info

thanks tho :wink:

“Conrad T.” [email protected] wrote in
message
news:[email protected]…

Hi Chris, please understand that 37signals is a company and the
information that you’re requesting maybe proprietary.

-Conrad

On 2/8/07, Chris E. [email protected]
wrote:

Hi all,

quick question

does anyone know what 37signals is using on
Getting Real

I’m assuming it’s a basic Rails backend … but what I really like is
the

9

“Chris M.” [email protected] wrote in
message news:[email protected]…

But the purchase app at Getting Real
is very clearly Rails based – just have a peek at some of the HTML
that’s been generated.

Chris

Yeah, my thought exactly … just intrigued by the purchase app
…
Suggestion is Active Merchant so far … that sound right to anyone? if
so,
then I will definately keep Active Merchant on the shortlist for my own
purchasing/validation system

Thanks all

–
Chris

10

Don’t know what they’re using, but check out
Substruct…

We’re using the Payment gem, not the ActiveMerchant gem for now.

http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct

On 2/9/07, Chris E. [email protected] wrote:

Chris
–
Chris

–

seth at subimage interactive

http://www.subimage.com
http://sublog.subimage.com

http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct

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On 2/9/07, Chris E. [email protected] wrote:

Chris

Yeah, my thought exactly … just intrigued by the purchase app
…
Suggestion is Active Merchant so far … that sound right to anyone? if
so,
then I will definately keep Active Merchant on the shortlist for my own
purchasing/validation system

We use Rails with ActiveMerchant against a Trust Commerce gateway. It
was
easy to setup and works well. Since there is only basic documentation,
just
look at the source code, samples, and tests to understand how to use
ActiveMerchant. The nice thing about going this route is that you have
some
flexibility in being able to switch to other processors fairly easily
should
you need to.

We were able to start with the ActiveMerchant tests to create a full set
of
tests with different cards and data to fully understand what error codes
and
messages we would get back. That made the live testing almost uneventful
:slight_smile:

–
Jeff B., MasterView core team
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