This post is a bit over­due con­sid­er­ing the project for which I did this was com­pleted months ago. I finally got around to doc­u­ment­ing it. Magento’s prod­uct list view lets cus­tomers add prod­ucts to the shop­ping cart one at a time. The client wanted cus­tomers to be able to add mul­ti­ple prod­ucts to the shop­ping cart simul­ta­ne­ously. Given the time con­straints for the projects, I cre­ated an ad hoc AJAX method to accom­plish this fea­ture request.

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So Greg Good­win has a very good post on installing Ruby on Rails with Pas­sen­ger on a Media Tem­ple ded­i­cated vir­tual server. How­ever, there were some post-install gotchas I ran into. I don’t recall run­ning into these prob­lems before. Per­haps I did and solved them last time, but did not write the solu­tions down. Well now I’m going to.

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I wouldn’t have believed it, unless I saw it with my own eyes, but I think I saw my first Cash for Clunk­ers scam. I’m not 100% sure if that’s what it is, but the cynic in me thinks so. Take a look for yourself.

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I helped deploy a Magento store today, but the client did not have all the prod­ucts entered in the data­base, and won’t be ready to launch that part of the site for another month. So they wanted a “Com­ing Soon!” splash page to be at the sub­di­rec­tory where the store is and pass­word pro­tect every­thing else. To do that I had to recon­fig­ure the .htac­cess file.

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