# E commece website

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commece-website/160584>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commece-website/160584 "2009-02-18T00:19:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc29f/32.png) [@lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lox323)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commece-website/160584/1 "2009-02-18T00:19:56Z")

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I just started on ruby on rails and i was asked by my supervisor to  
create a ecommerce website using ruby on rails. I have planned how the  
website is to be like. It will be like an ebay process but with no  
bidding and no paypal, just straight calling the seller for there  
product but its only for a certain organisation so a login page is  
needed before you log on to the website. Each seller has there own  
account. Can you you give me a step by step guide on how to do a page  
that has the option to sign in/ log in?

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**Author:** ![lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc29f/32.png) [@lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lox323)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commece-website/160584/2 "2009-02-18T03:26:07Z")

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lox323 wrote:

> I just started on ruby on rails and i was asked by my supervisor to  
> create a ecommerce website using ruby on rails. I have planned how the  
> website is to be like. It will be like an ebay process but with no  
> bidding and no paypal, just straight calling the seller for there  
> product but its only for a certain organisation so a login page is  
> needed before you log on to the website. Each seller has there own  
> account. Can you you give me a step by step guide on how to do a page  
> that has the option to sign in/ log in?

That sounds like the sample website from /Agile Web D. with  
Rails/, 3rd  
edition.

Don’t do Rails without it!

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**Author:** ![lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc29f/32.png) [@lox323](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lox323)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commece-website/160584/3 "2009-02-18T09:26:17Z")

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Hi lox323,

the rails development book is one way. The other way is to collect the  
“mechanism” you need from several tutorials etc.

1. Authentication and Access:

2. The ebay Api for ruby

3. Other stuff

Good luck and have fun!

Chris

p.s. there are loots of other book (besided “the” rails book) which also  
deal with rails and e-commerce. Have a look at [apress.com](http://apress.com). But the this  
with all the books including the rails book is, that they all use Rails  
\< 2.0 It’s not that easy to migrate all the examples to the 2.2.2  
version etc. But you could also use Rails \< 2.0 for you project. But you  
will lack the features.