# Shopping cart **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 4, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shopping-cart/91048 "2007-04-04T03:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ckonrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@ckonrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ckonrad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shopping-cart/91048/1 "2007-04-04T03:12:21Z")
one of things i am finding hard to understand about using rails to make a shopping cart system or a blog is that blogs ans shopping carts have already been designed hundreds of times. I mean i have a friend who needed to create a shopping cart for the co-op he works for because they wanted an ecommerce site, so he went online got some php code plugged it in to the site and the database and had it set up for the most part before he went home that day, and this was a huge system with thousands of products. Aside from that there are already shopping carts that have been designed and require almost no programming to integrate with a a persons website. e.g. i was at office max the other day and saw for $19,95 a program that a person code use to make an ecommmerce website with almost no programming experience. The same thing seems true of blogs for the most part. Rails might be rapid development but why use it to reinvent the wheel over and over again? I must be missing something because rails seems really popular. -corey ---
**Author:** ![ckonrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@ckonrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ckonrad)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shopping-cart/91048/2 "2007-04-11T08:12:55Z")
Hi Corey, Did anyone reply to this? Do we need to build shopping cart from scratch? Is it true with blogs, forums on rails as well? Regards, Sandeep G On Apr 4, 6:12 am, Corey K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)