Hellsten Christian, Laine Jarkko. Beginning Ruby on Rails E-commerce

Apress, 2006, 448p
Book is for people who want to learn how to build realworld professional web applications using Rails best practices. We put a specific emphasis on e-commerce by showing you how to build an online bookstore, including a shopping cart, catalog, forum, and other functionality. On the front-end, we guide you through important technologies like Ajax, syndication, tagging, and internationalization. On the back-end, we show you how to integrate with payment gateways, use ActiveRecord and the Ferret search engine, and many other techniques.