# Status of Shipping gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-shipping-gem/148660>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 16, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-shipping-gem/148660 "2008-09-16T00:25:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-shipping-gem/148660/1 "2008-09-16T00:25:07Z")

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Hello list,

Does anyone know the status of the shipping gem (shipping API -  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping](http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping))? It seems the last update was on  
july 10, 2007, does anyone know if this last version is compatible with  
most  
shipping providers it supports, specially the current version of the  
Fedex  
API? And is it Rails 2 compatible?

If someone could confirm these data for me, I would be really grateful!

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-shipping-gem/148660/2 "2008-09-16T01:23:04Z")

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This is probably more what you’re looking for, and is in active  
development. From the same people behind active\_merchant.

> **[GitHub - Shopify/active\_shipping: ActiveShipping is a simple shipping...](https://github.com/Shopify/active_shipping/tree/master)**
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> master

-Brady  
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On Sep 15, 4:24 pm, “Marcelo de Moraes S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-shipping-gem/148660/3 "2008-09-16T13:50:28Z")

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This is really interesting, Brady! Thanks for pointing out… I would  
definitely use this package it if supported fedex. I would also look  
into it  
and maybe try to contribute the fedex support if our timeline wasn’t so  
tight!

What remains left is the shipping gem, which supports UPS and Fedex…  
since  
we plan on supporting UPS in a near future, this package make much more  
sense than one that is only built to interface fedex.

I think the only way to know if the shipping gem is still good for  
production (given the fact that it has been without updates for more  
than  
one year) is to actually try to use it in a test application.

However, if someone around knows anything else about this gem and would  
like  
to share, I would be very happy 🙂

Thanks again!

Marcelo.