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Rack::Payment lets you add 5 lines of code to your Rails (or any Rack-based) application and you can start accepting single payments! Let’s say you have an online store and you want to accept credit card payments. You can require rack-payment in your application: 1 # config/environment.rb 2 3 Rails::Initializer.run...

I was looking for an easy way to add OpenID authentication to Rack applications and I found Rack::OpenID, a Rack middleware for OpenID. If you want to have a user redirected to their OpenID login, simply return: 1 [ 401, { 'WWW-Authenticate' => 'OpenID identity="my-open-id-url.com"' }, [] ] If you...

Tonight, at the Phoenix Android meeting, someone asked if I knew any good Ruby / Rails web hosts. Something easy for someone who’s just learning Rails and wants to be able to essentially copy/paste their code to a server and have it “just work.” The first (and only) service that...

Have you ever wanted to build your own web framework? Do you want to learn howto create Rack applications? The first time I found out about Sinatra, I had already created my own Rack-based web framework and I wasn’t particularly interested in Sinatra. It’s really just a pretty DSL for...

Part 3 in my screencast mini-series on Rack … checkout parts 1 and 2: Part I: Rack Basics Part II: Rackup files, Rack::Request, Rack::Response, and more In Part 3, we cover: What is Rack middleware? How to write your own Rack middleware How to use your Rack middleware from any...

This is a follow up to my first Rack screencast, Rack Basics. In this screencast, we cover a bit more of the basics. Instead of playing around in an IRB shell, we create an executable Rack application using a Rackup file (the conventional way to run Rack applications). We use...

If you’re a Ruby programmer and you’ve never directly used Rack before then this screencast is for you. This introduces you to the very basics of Rack. If you’ve used Rack before and / or you’ve very comfortable with the basics, watch for some additional Rack screencasts coming from me....

RackBox is a new RubyGem that adds Merb-esque blackbox testing to Rails applications. Because it’s based on Rack, RackBox also works with most other Ruby web frameworks, eg. Camping, Sinatra, etc. http://github.com/remi/rackbox ( original screencast ) To view this screencast, visit http://remi.org/2009/01/29/introducing-rackbox_merb-esque-blackbox-testing-for-rack-and-rails-apps.html