# How to design a webshop client?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-design-a-webshop-client/145599>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 11, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-design-a-webshop-client/145599 "2008-08-11T23:18:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jawosis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jawosis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jawosis)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-design-a-webshop-client/145599/1 "2008-08-11T23:18:25Z")

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I’am just hacking a online shop.

My intention is to build a local (LAN) ror based application where  
all new products, images … will be stored during the day.  
At the end of the day the local application will contact  
the online shop via ActiveResource an store all new products, images …  
on the webserver … and it will get all new orders from the web shop.

The local application will communicate vi XML with our enterprise  
resource planning system, too.

Is this a good/recommended way?