# Announcing our first Rails web application: Tip Jar for Your Blogs (Mephisto or Typo )

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-our-first-rails-web-application-tip-jar-for-your-blogs-mephisto-or-typo/147305>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 30, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-our-first-rails-web-application-tip-jar-for-your-blogs-mephisto-or-typo/147305 "2008-08-30T17:57:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cnick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@cnick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cnick)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-our-first-rails-web-application-tip-jar-for-your-blogs-mephisto-or-typo/147305/1 "2008-08-30T17:57:16Z")

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Hello Rails Community,

I have worked hard in developing this “Tip Jar” widget web  
application – [http://www.TipMyBlog.net](http://www.TipMyBlog.net) – for a while now, and I would  
like to share it with the RoR community.

Our background was Java and PHP. But for this one, we built it  
entirely with Ruby-on-Rails, hand-code PayPal integration , and it is  
powered by Amazon Web Services - and I have to say it was a delight for  
me to build. All the cron jobs are also run in Ruby scripts and  
ActiveRecord library, which I love!

For my RoR hosting, I use [RailsPlayground.com](http://RailsPlayground.com) . Have to admit that  
deployment was somewhat a pain, and took me 2 hours to figure out, but  
their support was good, and I know Ruby-on-Rails keeps moving forward to  
make things better for developers 🙂 , even deployment process.

For the payments integration with PayPal Express Checkout, we decided  
not to use ActiveMerchant since we need more customization with  
Recurring Payments for our business logic.

If you have a blog and are interested in adding another widget to your  
blog, please check us out at: [http://www.TipMyBlog.net](http://www.TipMyBlog.net)

Don’t worry - the widget will stand your high-trafficked blog or  
website since the widget ad codes are all served from Amazon’s Server  
and Data Center.

If you’re in the US, have a good Labor Day!

Thanks,  
Chris  
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[http://www.TipMyBlog.net](http://www.TipMyBlog.net) – Online Tip Jar Widget for Bloggers  
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