Historical errata for Payment Processing with Paypal and Ruby

None of the links throughout the PDF work in Mac Preview for me. I’ll try adobe acrobat when I get a chance.

The box ‘Joe Ask… Encrypted or Clear Text Buttons’ is outside at the bottom. The last line can i read at the bottom is: ‘to generate a buton* for each option.’

Maybe a good idea let send screenshots with design erratums.

• Erratum :-p

Sorry for my english

The example HTML code contains the sentence:

“This is form shows …”

It should read:

“This form shows …”

The example HTML code contains the sentence:

“This is form shows …”

It should read:

“This form shows …”

Bad URL:
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/jfpaypal/code/code/StandardOption_SimplestThingThatWorks.html
Good URL:
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/jfpaypal/code/StandardOption_SimplestThingThatWorks.html

Figure 4.2 is labeled as “Empty Sandbox”, which appears to just be a copy/paste error from figure 4.1.

Right under the heading, reference is made to figure 5.1 on page 29, but it’s actually on page 33.

“…an asyncronous method that can happen second or hours after the
transaction…” - “second” should be “seconds”.

Second paragraph - “Also note that f” should be “Also note that if”.

(P.S. Sorry for the incorrect PDF page numbering on my earlier errata - I’ve got it figured out now.)

This site is no longer available: http://dist.leetsoft.com/api/paypal
I think it has been rolled in to ActiveMerchant: http://home.leetsoft.com/am

in the last section on the page, first sentence, “great for the occational scenario…”.
Occasional is mispelled.

The code on this page should be showing what needs to be done in order to confirm the express checkout order, instead it just repeats the code from the previous example

All links to code are broken. For example:
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/jfpaypal/code/code/ProOption/PayPalHttpClientTest.rb

has an extra ‘/code’ in it.

The link that’s supposed to lead to the tutorial’s pp_controller.rb file returns a 404.

The Joe Asks sections look shifted down and overlap with the blue footer on the page. Can you pleas fix throughout and re-send the PDF?

Where it says “Save these lines and every thing between the mintoa new file called cert.keys” It should say “client.keys” to match up with the code usage.

TransationSearch should be TransactionSearch

In the “Submit Order Details” section there is a code excerpt for sending shopping-cart information to PayPal. The code is incorrect.

It states:

But should read:
<input … name=“item_name_1” … >

In addition, the following 2 entries (on page 34) also reference name=“amount_1” and name=“item_1”.

These should be name=“item_name_2” and name=“item_name_3” with the respective name=“amount_2” and name=“amount_3” entries.

Letting the reader know that a social security number is provided by the Sandbox User’s Guide would have saved me 10-15 minutes of time while trying to fill our the Business Account form. A mention of this fact or actually giving the reader the 111-nn-nnnn hint would have worked.

It is commonly accepted that apostrophes are NOT required after acronyms (eg. IDs, not ID’s):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

I know it’s only a small mistake but it’s really annoying!

This document is out of date on many pages. Desperately needs an update.

under Email Payments: in the first sentence “drivien” should be “driven”

“Website Payments Standard has more protection from fraud, decreases you liability, ischeaper, and doesn’t require a monthly fee.”

It should be “[…] decreases your liability”, not “you liability”.

last paragraph: surely, it should say to set shipping_1 to 10, and shipping_2 (and shipping_3+) to 3.

The return code from PayPal is “SUCCESS” or “FAIL” (and not “FAILURE”).

In the “Joe Asks…” sidebar, “penney” should be “penny”. Also, the placement of the sidebar is suboptimal; the text runs into the blue border at the bottom of the page.

No forward slash in the body closing tag

:)

The code for IPN verification contains a bug.

‘raw + "&cmd=_notify-validate"' is wrong. According to the Paypal documentation, it's the other way around : it should be '&cmd=_notify-validate" + raw’.