Aredridel wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:46 +0900, Sarah Tanembaum wrote: > >>Is there any good(secure) Ruby shopping cart program example? Thanks > > > I'd put $100 up for anyone who would code and release under liberal license: > > * A shopping cart > * that takes all data in from a post or URL > * that requires no database at all, session storage excepted. > * that runs as a CGI or FastCGI > * that can use an XHTML file or a few as a template for output. > * that has few dependencies, and can be deployed with no special > configuration beyond making generic CGI or FastCGI go on > $user[:webserverofchoice] > * that would link to paypal at least for payment processing. > > Ari > > > Is it because Ruby a) can't handle such application, b) not ready for that type of apps because of performance and/or security, c) too hard to implement(perhaps PHP is better for this type of apps), d) no one is willing to share the scripts , e) or any that I can't think of. Thanks