[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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> 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
> Message-ID: <510F9D2C.5010406 at gmail.com>
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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>
> Cc: London Ruby Users Group <Chat at lists.lrug.org>
> 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?
> Message-ID: <B63C369B50574835A65E3FE4407CB3CE at gmail.com>
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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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Chat mailing list
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