Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-13 Thread Ahsan Naqvi
Hi Tom, If I am understanding you correctly you are trying to build an ecommerce service. The software architecture will be different than the single store. In broad strokes you will need A Store Model with attributes: Name, Username, Password Hash, Payment Processor, any other relevant

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-12 Thread tom
hi nothing would prevent me from storing their keys, assuming they woudl give it. i was just wondering if i really need their keys or if their 'paypal-email address' would be enough to redirect the buyer to the right paypal store...or a specific url - again not sure. thx all On Thu, Dec 11,

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 December 2014 at 03:07, tom tomabr...@gmail.com wrote: well, i do have store_id's and so on for my users, respectively the product_ids and so forth. what im not sure about is how to do the payments. i have my paypal-keys so users can check out on my store, but how would i offer that for

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, tom tomabr...@gmail.com wrote: i have my paypal-keys OK. You've implemented a payment process using those. What in theory is preventing you using that same process with the paypal-keys of other people? -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-11 Thread Matt Jones
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:08:47 UTC-6, der_tom wrote: well, i do have store_id's and so on for my users, respectively the product_ids and so forth. what im not sure about is how to do the payments. i have my paypal-keys so users can check out on my store, but how would i offer

[Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-10 Thread tom
anyone? thx On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:49 PM, tom tomabr...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i have an rails app and users can pay to 'my' paypal account via active merchant. now i want to expand and allow users to have their own store , but im not sure how to deal with the users - store payments,

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-10 Thread Norm Scherer
Sounds like an opportunity to blaze a trail! Norm On 12/10/2014 02:57 PM, tom wrote: anyone? thx On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:49 PM, tom tomabr...@gmail.com mailto:tomabr...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i have an rails app and users can pay to 'my' paypal account via active merchant.

Re: [Rails] Re: user stores - how to setup in theory

2014-12-10 Thread tom
well, i do have store_id's and so on for my users, respectively the product_ids and so forth. what im not sure about is how to do the payments. i have my paypal-keys so users can check out on my store, but how would i offer that for the user-to-user scenario? would i just redirect them to their