Archives for December, 2009.

3D Secure Transactions using SagePay Gateway and ActiveMerchant Plugin

Introduction

What is 3D secure?

3D Secure is a latest initiative for fraud prevention launched by Visa and MasterCard. 3D Secure adds additional password authentication step to complete the online transactions. A detailed introduction is available at http://www.sagepay.com/developers/industry_knowledge/3d_secure.asp.
This tutorial is a guide to set up a Ruby on Rails test environment for 3D Secure payment transactions using [...]

Textmate Gitbundle and Snow Leopard

Ever since installing Snow Leopard on my machine, I’ve had problems using some of the commands with the Git bundle on Textmate. One of the more annoying ones was with ‘Pull’, whereby it would spit out some error message along the lines of…

/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Git.tmbundle/Support/tmvc/lib/ruby_tm_helpers.rb:70:in `basename’: can’t convert nil into String

plus a whole load of [...]