stoyangov/crowdfunding-1

Instantly add simple crowdfunding to your Ruby on Rails application with PayPal Payments Standard.

Crowdfunding¶ ↑

Instantly add simple crowdfunding to your Ruby on Rails application with PayPal Payments Standard.

This project is still in development. Do not use, especially in a production application.

Configuration¶ ↑

There are several configuation variables. Here is the list and what they do:

• paypal_email: this will set the PayPal email address to use for making payments to

• paypal_sandbox: set this to true if you’re wanting to test the functionality with PayPal’s sandbox area. Sign up at developer.paypal.com

• domain_without_ending_slash: This is the domain name the app is running on. MAKE SURE NOT TO PUT AN ENDING SLASH (this is a bad setup and will be fixed in the future)

To set the configuration, create a the file config/initializers/crowdfunding.rb and set each variable like so: Crowdfunding.variable = value

Testing PayPal¶ ↑

To test PayPal in your local development environment, you’ll need to have tunnelling enabled to ensure PayPal’s IPN can send the notification to your computer. Setup is very simple.

1. Install the localtunnel gem: gem install localtunnel

2. On the first run you will need to send localtunnel your public key like so: localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 3000

3. Configure the engine with the URL localtunnel gives you

4. Done. Now you can repeat these steps whenever you’re using app in your development environment by just running: localtunnel 3000