# RoR on-line store or OSCommerce?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-line-store-or-oscommerce/92683>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-line-store-or-oscommerce/92683 "2007-04-23T01:10:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsn1)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-line-store-or-oscommerce/92683/1 "2007-04-23T01:10:56Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am I the process or searching for some info that will hep em deciding  
is it s better to create my own on-line store in RoR or use

> **[FREE shopping cart and open source eCommerce platform - Start selling on...](https://www.oscommerce.com/)**
>
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What will be the pros and cons to create from scratch my own RoR on-line  
store?

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**Author:** ![jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jsn1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsn1)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-line-store-or-oscommerce/92683/2 "2007-04-23T01:22:05Z")

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On 23/04/2007, at 9:10 AM, Jose P. wrote:

> What will be the pros and cons to create from scratch my own RoR on-  
> line  
> store?

This list is specifically for Rails deployment issues. You want a  
more general Rails help channel:

> **[Community](https://rubyonrails.org/community)**
>
> A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

– tim