I'm a Ruby on Rails developer. I'd like to create a web application. I will let users get a payed subscription to use the product. So I will need a recurring billing system (e.g. via paypal). But there is the fear to fail and make some bad mistakes, because I will handle money from other people.... regardless following the instructions of e.g. Ryan Bates on Railscasts how to implement such a recurring payment system. What is your advice to overcome this fear of building such a product? What are the risks I need to calculate when designing such a system? 
How to overcome the fear of building a web application with a recurring payment system?
ruby on rails;tips;payment
1) You're right to use a service to do the recurring payments for you so you don't have to worry about security.  Your biggest risk is that you could expose payment data to malicious individuals.  Make secure storage of the credit card data somebody else's problem.2) Write really good tests.  Don't stop at unit tests, move up to integration, functional and behavioral tests.  It's not enough to test testCardAccepted.  You also need tests like Given my card was processed successfully and a year has passed and I have not canceled Then I should see one charge of 9.99 on the test card account. and Given my card was ... and the expiration date is in the past and there is one month to renewal Then I should see an e-mail asking to update the card information.3) Do some analysis and design before you start.  See if there's a well established library you can use to do the recurring payments from your merchant.  Understand the problem really well and get a sense of what might be problem areas.  I can't think of a good library, but check to see if the merchant has good quality sample code you can re-use.4) Make sure you form an LLC or corp with its own, separate bank account for transactions with the merchant.  Check to see if your local laws require you to carry a bond or other insurance, including business licensing.  that all the advice I have for you.