Ruby on Rails

Oh, good idea....Thanks Colin, tunnel-vision sucks, I'd have never
thought of that.

On Aug 1, 12:04 pm, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 1 August 2011 16:56, bertly_the_coder <much...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have an interesting problem that I'm trying to wrap my head around.
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> > I'm creating a subscription based service that will charge extra for
> > premium products. What does this mean?...ok, let's say I've created a
> > subscription based service that allows you to get any 5 standard
> > magazines of your choice shipped to you per month, where a standard
> > magazine is any magazine that costs less than $7.99. Magazines more
> > expensive than that are considered premium.
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> > Now if a subscriber selects a standard magazine, this is fine, the
> > order is created and the magazine is shipped, this order falls within
> > the terms of the subscription. However, if the subscriber selects a
> > premium magazIne, then I have to charge them the difference of the
> > magazine price from 7.99. So if they order a magazine worth 9.99, I
> > have to charge them 2 bucks, etc etc.
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> > Now, I can't figure out where to put this logic check. What I've
> > started with was this.  I created another controller method to check
> > the price, if it's standard, send to the create method(is that even
> > possible??). If the magazine price is high, I redirect to a confirm
> > page then back to the create method....this means that I have to store
> > my order in a session, right? Which just seems like over kill.
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> Add it to the order in the normal way but mark it as not confirmed,
> then get the user to confirm it (or not).
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> > Has anyone had a problem like this before? How did you go about
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> > Thanks a bunch in advance,
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