Out of the box Rails solutions with integrated payment systems scares me as it allows people with little Rails experience to quickly allow payments.

I'd parallel my concern to beginner developers who create Rails projects that don't check for User ownership when navigating to /edit paths.

Implementing Stripe is almost a small rite of passage. It forces you to understand the API, and how it treats payments and other various objects.

If you refined the tutorial and put it in an eBook, I would purchase it. I think a lot of people would.

Maybe contact the pragprog [1] guys?

[1]: http://pragprog.com/

Here's a diff that shows the differences between a fresh Rails installation and RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas as of ea5bc35c02de4be277682dca964bff8dcb84917c.

https://gist.github.com/3955802

I've said it before, but I'd love to see something like this as an oauth service. If anyone's working on it, feel free to shoot me an email.

Thanks for doing this. I saw something similar for Python and kept meaning to do a Rails version.