[LRUG] Chat Digest, Vol 85, Issue 2

Steve Graham sjtgraham at mac.com
Mon Feb 4 05:00:02 PST 2013


It's very likely Stripe will launch here soon. They're hiring in UK/Europe right now. 

BTW If anyone is interested in working there, contact me off list and I can intro you to the dude building the team here. 

S

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On 4 Feb 2013, at 12:55, chat-request at lists.lrug.org wrote:

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>   1. Reaching Out To Charitable LRUGers (Anthony Gardner)
>   2. Best Payments solution for Rails app? (David Burrows)
>   3. Re: Best Payments solution for Rails app? (G?raud MATHE)
>   4. Re: Best Payments solution for Rails app? (Mooktakim Ahmed)
>   5. Re: Best Payments solution for Rails app? (Gabe da Silveira)
>   6. Re: Best Payments solution for Rails app? (Oto Brglez)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:36:12 +0000
> From: Anthony Gardner <notantspants at gmail.com>
> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: [LRUG] Reaching Out To Charitable LRUGers
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> Hello all,
> 
> I'm looking for a charitable soul, or two, to help me finish off my 
> website (www.guessmyfinishtime.com).
> 
> The current design was done by .......... me and I've paid a designer to 
> do a redesign but he left me too many holes to fill in and I am totally 
> incompetent when it comes to frontend design. Plus, the new design 
> doesn't lend itself to being responsive.
> 
> An outline
> 
>  * Landing page
>  * Page for people to make their guesses
>  * small dashboard
>  * other pages are mainly forms (character counts, some field
>    descriptions (maybe too much text for placeholder), and some page
>    descriptions). There's autocomplete to take into account
>  * There are a few other bits 'n pieces.
> 
> I'm falling out of love with the app, all because of the frontend, and I 
> would like to be reinvigorated and finish it. The backend is well on the 
> way to being well developed though I haven't touched it for a few months 
> what with other commitments.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I'll upload some images somewhere so you can 
> have a look to see the idea of the redesign.
> 
> The site is all for charity and by contributing, it will leave you with 
> a warm, soft glow for the rest of your life!!
> 
> -Anthony
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> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:42:47 +0000
> From: David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com>
> To: London Ruby Users Group <Chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: [LRUG] Best Payments solution for Rails app?
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> Hi All,
> 
> Got a project where I need to setup one-off and recurring payments from
> around the world, mainly US & Europe - was wondering if anyone had any
> current recommendations? I've used active_merchant / Paypal in the past but
> Braintree has a lot of good buzz and seems like a more robust solution,
> esp. considering PayPal's recent form.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> -- 
> David Burrows
> 079 1234 2125
> @dburrows
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> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld
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> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:52:12 +0000
> From: G?raud MATHE <geraudmathe at gmail.com>
> To: David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com>
> Cc: London Ruby Users Group <Chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Best Payments solution for Rails app?
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> Personally I had a really good experience using Braintree for recurrent
> payments, the api is simple, well-formed and the documentation helps a lot.
> 
> Another option can be Ogone ( http://www.ogone.co.uk/en/Default.aspx ) , I
> heard pretty good feedback about them for recurring payment.
> 
> Geraud
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, David Burrows
> <david at designsuperbuild.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Got a project where I need to setup one-off and recurring payments from
>> around the world, mainly US & Europe - was wondering if anyone had any
>> current recommendations? I've used active_merchant / Paypal in the past but
>> Braintree has a lot of good buzz and seems like a more robust solution,
>> esp. considering PayPal's recent form.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
>> 
>> --
>> David Burrows
>> 079 1234 2125
>> @dburrows
>> 
>> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld
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> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:53:01 +0000
> From: Mooktakim Ahmed <mooktakim at fluxter.co.uk>
> To: David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com>
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> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Best Payments solution for Rails app?
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> Hey David,
> 
> I've been working on 2 projects recently and been figuring this out too.
> I've come to the conclusion its best to use something like SpreedlyCore:
> https://spreedlycore.com
> 
> It adds to the price, but it makes it a lot simpler since they have a much
> cleaner API.
> Also, they can store the credit cards so you don't have to.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Mooktakim Ahmed
> 
> 
> On 4 February 2013 12:42, David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Got a project where I need to setup one-off and recurring payments from
>> around the world, mainly US & Europe - was wondering if anyone had any
>> current recommendations? I've used active_merchant / Paypal in the past but
>> Braintree has a lot of good buzz and seems like a more robust solution,
>> esp. considering PayPal's recent form.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
>> 
>> --
>> David Burrows
>> 079 1234 2125
>> @dburrows
>> 
>> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld
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> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:54:21 +0000
> From: Gabe da Silveira <gabe at websaviour.com>
> To: David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com>
> Cc: London Ruby Users Group <Chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Best Payments solution for Rails app?
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> If you're not selling a physical product absolutely do not use PayPal.
> Braintree is good and can work with many different currencies although you
> will require merchant accounts in said currency.  Of course Stripe is the
> best if you can limit yourself to the US/Canada for now.  The rumor is UK
> is in development or at least on their radar.
> 
> If you go with Braintree or Stripe then you could avoid the overhead of
> ActiveMerchant which ends up being sort of a lowest-commond-denominator
> solution.  The idea is that it abstracts the payment details so you can
> switch gateways easily, but in practice the surface area of the payment
> processing interface isn't that big anyway, and if you design your
> application correctly than I think the precision and clarify of using a
> specific payment systems library outweighs the small benefit of
> ActiveMerchant's abstraction.  That is assuming the libraries are
> well-maintained, which Braintree's and Stripe's are.
> 
> -gabe
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, David Burrows
> <david at designsuperbuild.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Got a project where I need to setup one-off and recurring payments from
>> around the world, mainly US & Europe - was wondering if anyone had any
>> current recommendations? I've used active_merchant / Paypal in the past but
>> Braintree has a lot of good buzz and seems like a more robust solution,
>> esp. considering PayPal's recent form.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
>> 
>> --
>> David Burrows
>> 079 1234 2125
>> @dburrows
>> 
>> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld
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> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:55:50 +0000
> From: Oto Brglez <otobrglez at gmail.com>
> To: Mooktakim at fluxter.co.uk
> Cc: London Ruby Users Group <Chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Best Payments solution for Rails app?
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> Hi! 
> 
> Have you seen or tried http://recurly.com/ or https://stripe.com/?  
> 
> -- 
> Oto Brglez
> 
> W: http://opalab.com
> M: 0038631593799
> 
> 
> On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Mooktakim Ahmed wrote:
> 
>> Hey David,
>> 
>> I've been working on 2 projects recently and been figuring this out too.
>> I've come to the conclusion its best to use something like SpreedlyCore:
>> https://spreedlycore.com
>> 
>> It adds to the price, but it makes it a lot simpler since they have a much cleaner API.
>> Also, they can store the credit cards so you don't have to.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Mooktakim Ahmed 
>> 
>> On 4 February 2013 12:42, David Burrows <david at designsuperbuild.com (mailto:david at designsuperbuild.com)> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Got a project where I need to setup one-off and recurring payments from around the world, mainly US & Europe - was wondering if anyone had any current recommendations? I've used active_merchant / Paypal in the past but Braintree has a lot of good buzz and seems like a more robust solution, esp. considering PayPal's recent form.  
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> David
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> David Burrows
>>> 079 1234 2125 (tel:079%201234%202125)
>>> @dburrows
>>> 
>>> http://www.designsuperbuild.com/ | @dsgnsprbld 
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