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- Active Merchant
The most widely used payment processing library for Ruby on Rails. Provides interfaces to more than 30 gateways with a single, abstracted API. Extracted from the Shopify hosted service.
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Rails software bundle for creating recurring billing using the Braintree gateway. This is commercial software, not open source.
- Spree Online Commerce for Ruby on Rails
Spree is distributed as both a Rails plugin as well as a Ruby gem (requires Rails 2.0.2). You use the gem to create your application which automatically installs the plugin in your project. The newly created project is actually a fully functional store. All that remains is for the developer to customize and style to taste.
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- ActiveMerchant PDF
A $9 e-book from the publishers of the PeepCode screencasts, written by one of the ActiveMerchant developers.
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Extensive description of how to use the Active Merchant payment gateway.
- Integrating the PayPal API with Ruby on Rails
Includes a complete sample application that shows how to integrate PayPal’s Direct Payment API and PayPal Express Checkout. The Direct Payment API, when used with a PayPal account approved for Website Payments Pro, allows you to capture credit card information at your site rather than redirecting your users to the PayPal site. Integrating the API for PayPal Express Checkout allows you to immediately get transaction details when sending users to the PayPal site to complete payment.
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