isbn.net.in – A Quick way to search for online book prices in India

• Searches multiple Indian ecommerce stores on-the-fly for book prices for given ISBN (the industry-standard number for any published book).
• Just go to http://isbn.net.in/0142000280 as an example. Replace “0142000280” with any other ISBN and it will fetch and show you the latest prices.
• While you’re waiting for the prices, you can also read the description of the book, see the book cover and read the reviews of the book.
• All in all, a quick way of knowing how much the book costs and whether it is worth considering to buy.

• Written using Rails 3.
• Open source. Visit https://github.com/swaroopch/isbnnetin for the source code (Apache license).

How to Install for latest Ubuntu

MongoDB

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
Add to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen
sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen

Memcache

sudo apt-get install memcached

Rails

cd isbn.net.in
bundle install

delayed_job

For development:

foreman start

For Ubuntu Linux / production:

Edit CODEDIR path in upstart/isbn.net.in-job-1.conf
sudo cp -v upstart/* /etc/init/
sudo start isbn.net.in