In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode

Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.

PayPal Express Checkout is easy to add to an existing ordering system. See how in this episode

In this episode I show how to add Active Merchant's functionality to a Rails application to make a fully-functional checkout process.

Active Merchant is a great library for handling credit card transactions. In this episode I will show you the basics of using it to communicate with PayPal's gateway.

This episode shows how to encrypt the variables passed to PayPal and verify the authenticity of the payment notifications (IPN).

PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) service allows your app to get confirmation when an order is processed. In this episode I use IPN to mark a cart as purchased

This episode is the first in a series on handling the checkout process for orders. Here we show how to complete purchases through PayPal's Website Payments Standard service

This episode finishes up the Rails 2.2 series by showing a few miscellaneous additions that I find useful.

In this episode I show how to nest resources through routing and go into some new additions in Rails 2.2

Internationalization is one of the biggest additions in Rails 2.2. See how the basics work in this episode.

Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization.