# New Friday on using Ruby and Paypal

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**Created:** [October 25, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-friday-on-using-ruby-and-paypal/73615 "2006-10-25T18:40:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-friday-on-using-ruby-and-paypal/73615/1 "2006-10-25T18:40:17Z")

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Hi folks,

Thought you might be interested in the latest book in our PDF-only  
“Fridays” series; it’s Joe Fair’s “Payment Processing with Paypal and  
Ruby”, a short guide to using Paypal to handle credit card  
transactions and web payments from Ruby and Rails.

Please visit [http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal) for details.

Here’s the rest of the blurb:  
Building a top-notch web site requires a lot of technical expertise.  
Keeping track of changing requirements and new technologies–not to  
mention the competition–can keep you on your toes. Processing  
payments is a small but important part of a successful site.

If you’re running a web site, you probably don’t want to know the  
details of processing payments. You want to know just enough to solve  
your problems so you can go to production. As powerful and popular as  
Ruby is, there isn’t much information on credit card processing.

This Friday will give you enough information to make a good decision,  
and enough technical know-how to implement that decision using Paypal  
and Ruby.

Available now from [http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal)

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Coming soon:

- Everyday Scripting in Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You (was:  
Scripting for Testers)
- Enterprise Engineering: Designing Beyond Release 1.0
- Essential Electronics for Software Folk: Thinking Inside the Box

Recently released:

- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- Google Web Toolkit: Taking the Pain out of Ajax
- Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac (Beta)
- Rails for Java Developers (Beta)

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Enjoy, and thanks for your continued support!

Andy and Dave

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