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> On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:53 AM, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:
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> People,
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> I have offered to volunteer IT advice to the local Meals on Wheels group - they have an existing informational web site and as a first step I have created an interactive PDF form for them so that clients can fill in a form on their computer and email it back to MoW. The next step is an on-line ordering setup and I could knock up a quick Rails system but before reinventing wheels, I went searching for something that is already working but couldn't find anything on GitHub or GitLab - is anyone aware of a simple system that is already in use?
>
> In this case we are talking about people ordering frozen meals - so someone might choose a dozen meals from a selection of a 100+.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
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> Philip Rhoades
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> PO Box 896
> Cowra NSW 2794
> Australia
> E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

That looks like a really nice cause. Are you thinking a simple form that submits and sends the order via an email?

A few other questions:

- Is this open to the public, or only registered customers?

- Related, how does the order get associated to the person placing the order (sign-in, or some other means of identifying the customer, address, phone, payment methods, etc.)

- Do you need to accept credit cards at checkout in the web app? (i.e. security considerations, and tie-ins to other gateways and such)

- Any reason why this can't be done through, say, Grubhub or Uber-eats? (I am noticing now you are in Australia... not sure what's there)

- Does this site need some on-line means to adjust items, availability and costs and such? (i.e. how comfortable is the person maintaining this with maintaining the data directly with a, say, tab delimited file, YAML, or database vs. needing a full-on CMS-style management system?)

- What technology is the existing site using? I.e., would you be putting the existing site inside a Rails app, or doing something else to merge the two technologies, if they are different?

Interesting little project. I could see that you could create something for your local MoW and then providing it to any other MoWs out there... could scale up. For that matter, have you checked with the main MoW to see if they have some solution already that could save you a lot of time? ...checking my local MoW, they don't seem to have much at all in the form of online ordering and such...


Phil

PS- Nice to meet another Philip with one L. ;')

Oh, and PPS- Thanks Joe for sharing your code! I enjoy poking around at other's code.

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