Rails ECommerce App
Spree
Just a quick note that if you're thinking about starting a new ecommerce shop, or thinking about moving your current store to Ruby on Rails, you might checkout Spree.
3 Comments
Armando Roggio says:
B.J. have you personally used Spree?
Brian Getting says:
@Armando
I took the time to install this application locally to check it out. The install went pretty simple (just be sure to configure your /config/database.yml file and create the appropriate database before bootstrapping) and it seems like a cute little shopping cart application. I certainly wouldn't consider it for a production site yet, though.
It seems to be a very simple application. There are some interesting features, and they attempt to take advantage of some Ajax functionality. However, there are also some drawbacks that I can see, such as having to create an account (and log in) in order to view your shopping cart. There are quite a few other things that are a bit annoying when trying to use the front end of the system.
I'd be interested in hearing what anyone else thinks of this application. If nothing else, I'm glad there are more open source Rails applications popping up.
schof says:
@Brian
The requirement that you login to view your cart was a bug. That's been fixed. You should be sure to check out the brand new 0.4.1 release. There's a lot of nifty new changes.
Spree is not meant to be used out of the box as a production site (although technically it could - it would just be very bland looking.) The target audience is experienced Rails developers who will use the powerful extension system to modify it for their exact business requirements.
