Saasy – SaaS for Rails
I’ve been working on an open source SaaS solution for Rails over Christmas called Saasy (pronouced “sarrsy” – using a posh voice).
Saasy provides:
- Subscription management
- Recurring billing
- Credit card management
- User authentication and SSO
- Mailers for invoices etc
Saasy follows a componentised design. The idea is that you build your custom site, and then the generic authentication, account management and credit card management is split into a separate Rails app (Saasy) – a reusable component.
None of the credit card information is stored locally – but rather at a payment gateway. This greatly simplifies PCI DSS (formally known as CISP) compliance. However, you still have control over when the card is charged – rather than using some of the gateway specific subscription systems – which means you don’t have to worry about gateway callbacks.
Sassy also deals with authentication (both OpenID and credential based) – your main app can forward users to the Saasy SSO, and then they’ll get redirected back once they’ve been authenticated. This means you don’t have to bother generating and customizing authentication code – and also means you can use the same code for authenticating multiple sites (DRY).
Checkout the README on github for a full list of all the features and installation info.
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I hope you had released this a little earlier!
Nice job man, thanks!
leondu
January 6, 2009
at 1:12 pm
This sounds really useful, I have a project in the pipeline that could really benefit from this.
Nathan
January 7, 2009
at 3:18 pm
This seems like a great alternative to shelling out $250 for the SaaS Rails Kit. I will definitely be using this. I would love to contribute to this project soon.
Liam Monahan
January 12, 2009
at 11:52 pm
got tests?
linoj
January 29, 2009
at 5:56 pm
thank you! this is fantastic news.
Jonathan Nelson
March 1, 2009
at 11:57 pm
I am implementing saasy, and in my companion app, I keep getting the error “NoMethodError: undefined method ‘helper_method’ for Object:Class”
Michael
May 26, 2009
at 5:41 pm
Michael:
That would be because you’re using an old version of Rails.
alex
May 26, 2009
at 7:35 pm
My rails version is 2.3.2. I think that’s updated enough for this app.
Michael
May 26, 2009
at 8:19 pm
Ok, I guess that is correct. I am running the new version, but didn’t realize that application.rb has now changed to application_controller.rb.
Thanks.
Michael
May 26, 2009
at 8:25 pm
Love you
Stefano Bernardi
July 18, 2009
at 7:51 pm
Any chance of integrating this with paypal subscriptions too?
Stefano Bernardi
July 18, 2009
at 7:58 pm
Any plans for some test coverage?
Steve Graham
October 30, 2009
at 10:59 pm