Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce

Ruby on Rails is the hottest new open source web technology around. It offers developers the opportunity to create fully-featured web applications in double-quick time. Rails and e-commerce are a match made in heaven and Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce is the first book to directly target this market.

This book explains to readers, via real-life scenarios, how to use Rails to create every aspect of an online store - from the basic steps to creating a product catalog, to building a reliable shopping cart system, all the way to adding cool features and function like customer feedback forums. The book goes beyond Ruby development to guide the reader to a smooth interface with vital third-party software applications, like online payment systems. This combination of high sophistication and broad focus makes this an essential working reference - the book all developers are calling for.