Difficult to use ActiveMerchant in a project that does not use ActiveRecord as its ORM?

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Difficult to use ActiveMerchant in a project that does not use ActiveRecord as its ORM?

ActiveMerchant seems to be baked with AR in mind.

I've come to this conclusion based on the fact that the purchase() method returns an ActiveRecord::Billing::Response object:

Is this correct and, if so, does this mean it might be difficult to use ActiveMerchant in a project that uses a different Ruby ORM (Sequel/Datamapper)?

If you check the implementation of ActiveMerchant::Billing::Response, there is no mention of ActiveRecord anywhere in the file. Not sure where you got the idea that AM returns AR objects.

Looking at the implementation of #purchase for the Braintree gateway, it calls #commit, which simply returns an ActiveMerchant::Billing::Response object

François Beausoleil 2009-09-22 19:38:05

Your answer makes sense. I can't find in the code where it says that the return value is an ActiveMerchant::Billing::Response object but I see the Response class defined. Perhaps there was a typo here - the comment for purchase() reads: "Returns: ActiveRecord::Billing::Response object": http://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant/blob/master/lib/active_merchant/billing/gateways/psl_card.rb#L107

zzz 2009-09-22 23:10:33

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