CoinPost - Start Your own Bitcoin Marketplace

Coinpost is a complete ready-to-deploy framework for bitcoin-based item listings. Coinpost is well-tested application written in Ruby on Rails, with an encompassing featureset.

To see an easy example of what this software is about - take a look at www.coinpost.com. Please note this site is a live and functioning marketplace, so don't post any items or buy any items unless you intend to commit to your activity.

Features

• Real time international to bitcoin currency conversion using the mtgox library
• Item Price fixing to major currencies
• Extensive test to code ratio (~1:1)
• Secure messaging framework for communicating with site users
• Automatic time zone synchronization between browser and server-side using javascript
• Extensive support for image assets on products
• WYSIWYG editing for product descriptions
• Item Categories
• User profiles
• Internationalization support through rails i18n
• Themes and html based on twitter-bootstrap
• Item submissions can be auto-posted by users to /r/bitmarket

Requirements

• Developed/Tested on Ruby 1.9.3
• Using Rails 3.2.14
• Developed and tested with both sqlite and postgres persistence backends

Getting Started

1. Once you've checked out the repo, in your rails project directory, create a database: rake db:migrate

2. And to seed a sample site to work with on your machine, run: rake db:seed

3. Once this is complete, go to http://localhost:3000/ and you'll see your marketplace.

4. That's it! Feel free to customize the site templates to match your branding, and to publish the site onto a production server

A Note on Security

• Extensive spec and behavioral tests on nearly all app functions and code paths
• nput html is whitelist sanitized through the nokogiri-based sanitize gem
• All ActiveRecord objects use attribute whitelisting
• Extensive ACL definitions through declarative_authorization, with corresponding bdd tests