# Payment processing in Rails - Book and Plugin recommendation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-processing-in-rails-book-and-plugin-recommendation/86460>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-processing-in-rails-book-and-plugin-recommendation/86460 "2007-02-22T13:48:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Human_D)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-processing-in-rails-book-and-plugin-recommendation/86460/1 "2007-02-22T13:48:27Z")

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Hello,

I’m going to develop a Ruby on Rails application for selling my  
widgets, what to you guys recommend for gathering required info for a  
newbie in Online Commerce?!?

How do you rate these books?

Apress - Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional  
[http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10178](http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10178)

PragProg - Payment Processing with Paypal and Ruby  
[http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal/index.html](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jfpaypal/index.html)

What about other books?

And which of the following plugins is good for PayPal integration (if  
I decide to go that path)?  
[http://www.rubyinside.com/paypal-libraries-for-ruby-and-rails-116.html](http://www.rubyinside.com/paypal-libraries-for-ruby-and-rails-116.html)

Thanks a lot,

- Dunnil

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**Author:** ![Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Human_D)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-processing-in-rails-book-and-plugin-recommendation/86460/2 "2007-02-22T18:30:24Z")

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I’m afraid I can’t say much from experience, but one plugin I didn’t  
see mentioned there that I’ve heard good things about is Active  
Merchant:  
[http://www.activemerchant.org/](http://www.activemerchant.org/)

Good luck.

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**Author:** ![Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Human_D)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-processing-in-rails-book-and-plugin-recommendation/86460/3 "2007-02-23T03:58:28Z")

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Here’s another book suggestion… see my sig. 🙂

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Building an e-commerce site with Rails?  
[http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce)

Meet up at RailsConf:  
[http://railsconf2007.conferencemeetup.com/](http://railsconf2007.conferencemeetup.com/)