# Does anyone know how to install/use Active Merchant? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 22, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to-install-use-active-merchant/66022 "2006-08-22T22:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rekab)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to-install-use-active-merchant/66022/1 "2006-08-22T22:33:47Z")
Does anyone know how to install/use Active Merchant? I can’t find any documentation online. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rekab)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to-install-use-active-merchant/66022/2 "2006-08-23T00:12:02Z")
you could pull the source down and generate the documentation via rake On 8/22/06, rekab [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Does anyone know how to install/use Active Merchant? I can’t find any > documentation online. Any help would be most appreciated. > > Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rekab)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to-install-use-active-merchant/66022/3 "2006-10-13T08:46:28Z")
unknown wrote: > you could pull the source down and generate the documentation via rake > > On 8/22/06, rekab [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to install/use Active Merchant? I can’t find any > > documentation online. Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Thanks! With the active\_merchant plugin installed under vendor/plugins, i got as far as cd-ing into active\_merchant and running the command ‘rake’ which started to do something but then failed with a few missing dependencies… without any documentation its a bit hard to know what to do from here… any suggestions welcome ---
**Author:** ![rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@rekab](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rekab)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-know-how-to-install-use-active-merchant/66022/4 "2006-10-18T10:41:06Z")
Once Active Merchant is in your Rails plugins folder like vendor/plugins/active\_merchant it is already installed because an init.rb file is included, which Rails uses to load the plugin. If you are only interested in the rdoc documentation then you can cd into the active\_merchant folder and do: rake rdoc You will then be able to open doc/index.html to view the generated documentation. If you are wanting to run the unit tests for Active Merchant then you will need a couple of gems installed: money, activesupport, actionpack There are also remote tests that you can run with: rake test\_remote Some of the remote tests will fail if you haven’t configured that particular gateway with your own test account in the remote test files. Not all of the gateway providers provide a publicly accessible test account that we can include. The best way to see the usage for the gateway you’re interested in is to just take a look at the unit tests and remote tests for the particular gateway under the test/unit and test/remote\_tests folders respectively. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any help with a particular gateway or other problem. Cody On 10/13/06, xia [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Cody F. [http://www.codyfauser.com](http://www.codyfauser.com) [RJS Templates for Rails [Book]](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rjsrails) (RJS Templates for Rails)