spree commerce (or other open source ruby shopping carts)

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Hi All,

Has anyone used spree commerce as an e-commerce system? Is it production ready? Easy to customize? Are there other ruby-based platforms out there?

I’m currently looking at options for an e-commerce system for a venture my company is starting and we’re deciding whether to use existing open-source solutions, proprietary software, or to just roll our own. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

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Haven’t used spree.

We use active merchant + paypal, but it is not a very big part of our site - it works and we leave it alone. Not sure what you are doing, but shopify might be an option as well.

Cheers,

Andrew Kuklewicz

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Spree has nice architecture and logic with extensions, but currently it has many bugs. It is in version 0.10... I was impressed by his architecture but dissapointed by the bugs :(. I started to fix them, it wasn't difficult to fix what bug I found but I was thinking if it has so many bugs now that I started, what I will find out later so I decided to go with a custom eshop (and when rails 3.0 comes out, make it rails 3 and give it open source... but it is very simple in comparison with spree).

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I like to deploy the Spreecommerce locally and want to implement my own changes. I have deployed successfully but I don't know where the actual sources files comes or running. I need help to sort this out. Please can any one help me.

Thanks in Advance

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The source files are coming from the spree gem, which is a Rails Engine (in short, a Rails Engine has all the architecture and code to function as an full Rails app, but treats your Rails app as the main app and itself as a secondary/auxilliary app). You can look at specific spree files whereever you install your gems locally as well as here, https://github.com/spree/spree.

In terms of overriding Spree, check out these links,

Views - http://guides.spreecommerce.com/view_customization.html

Logic - http://guides.spreecommerce.com/logic_customization.html