[RPS] More help on Payments

[Roy Pardee (Poulsbo WA)]

So... Speaking of noobs...  What does one do with a .patch file?  I'm
guessing there's some tool for merging its contents w/the source it's
intended to modify, yes?  What are the mechanics for doing this (on
windows)?  Or should we not be doing this ourselves?

Thanks!

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: therps-discuss-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:therps-discuss-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of pat eyler
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:04 AM
To: the Ruby Programming Shop
Subject: [RPS] More help on Payments


I've asked Tobias if I could forward this message.  I think there 
is a big opportunity for us as we reach out to other developers 
to help move our RPS projects along.  Tobias should be joining 
this list shortly (maybe he's already here -- Hiya Tobias!), and 
is interested in helping us build on Payment.

thanks,
-pate

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tobias Lutke <tobias.luetke at gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2005 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Rails] PayPal on Rails?
To: pat eyler <pat.eyler at gmail.com>


Here is the patch,

It comes with full unit test coverage for the moneris parts. I'll help out
with this library once it gets of its feet again since I need support for
various providers myself for the next project.

On 5/23/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/05, Tobias Lutke <tobias.luetke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think payment is a maintained project.
>
> Lucas has been a bit busy, so things have dropped by the wayside.  
> We've just started a new project called the Ruby Programming Shop, the 
> goal of which is to take things like Payment and improve them -- build 
> a solid unit test suite, write docs, and then add improvements.  It's 
> geared at both polishing the library and helping develop better Ruby
> programmers.
>
> >
> > I submitted a huge patch to add moneris bindings to it which never 
> > made it into the lib.
>
> Please resubmit it (with unit tests preferably ...).  We'll try to get 
> it included in the first RPS snapshot of Payment next week.
>
> >
> > Additionally its a direct port of a perl library without any 
> > rubyfication of its API. To me it feels a bit alien to use. For 
> > example when an error occurs it returns false instead of throwing an 
> > exception which I find downright dangerous.
>
> If you're interested in either helping patch that hole, or coaching a 
> Ruby Nuby through patching it, we'd love to have your help.
>
> > --
> > Tobi
> > http://www.snowdevil.ca - Snowboards that don't suck 
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> > http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog
> >
>
>
> --
> thanks,
> -pate
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thanks,
-pate
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want
to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said
- the Raven   (George MacDonald, Lilith)