Ruby on Rails Photo Gallery & Shopping Cart with RESTful Authentication
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 | Design
Tonight I launched another web application for Michael Youngblood Photography which allows him to build online photo galleries that his customers can privately view and order online with qty, size and framing options. The customer must use paypal to complete the transaction (because I’m still a rails n00b, guys. no serious SSL stuff for me yet).
So I grabbed the RESTful Authentication Tutorial as my base framework for the application, so I automatically had user accounts, roles, logging in and session stores to work with right off the bat.
I’m very proud of this application from a knowledge/skill expanding aspect, a UI aspect, project complexity, and the fact that I was careful to write this in “The Rails Way” as strictly as possible. Remember guys I’m still a n00b but I’m coming along. Enjoy!
Demonstration of the User Interface process and application
What I had to add on to it was the ability for Michael to create galleries which belong to the user accounts he creates in the process.
So he begins by creating a customer:
Michael begins by creating his customer
Then he names the gallery:
Michael names the gallery
Then he populates the gallery with photos:
Michael uploads photos to the gallery
This is what the customer sees when they log in (minus the edit gallery link, only admins see that)
The customer interacts with their gallery
*note, the “Add to Cart” gray bar is triggered by mouse hover.
They can add to cart:
The customer adds an item to their cart
After completing the checkout process in paypal, the user can see their order list, and Michael can access their order list directly off their private user page.
To see the full demonstration, check out my Jing! Screencast here:
View the 5 minute Screencast Demonstration
*note -> the photo uploads actually work much better and without wonkiness on the production server!
If you’d like to get your hands on the source, or would like to work with me, please contact me.
7 Comments to Ruby on Rails Photo Gallery & Shopping Cart with RESTful Authentication
I like the demonstration and would like to see how you did the photo albums and the paypal integration. I want to convert my site over to Ruby and add these features.
Thanks,
Scott
The contact you section of your site isn’t working. I tried to send the request for the source using both firefox and ie.
Scott- I’ll make a demo video with source and code snippets soon
Sweet! Looking forward to the source, especially the ajax uploads
GregAugust 31, 2009
Great application! Been looking for something simple yet perfectly functional like this. Keep us posted… Looking forward to see the source. Cheers.
Guys.
I’m writing the tutorial on my company blog at http://www.simplifyadvance.com. It’s coming soon, I promise. Thanks for waiting.
-JMS
September 18, 2009
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