The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Interview)

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Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc.
  • Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce
  • Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform.
  • Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline
  • Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption
  • Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant.
  • Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round
  • SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences
  • Everybody loves Sticker Mule
  • Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree.
  • Spree has a growing list of community extensions.
  • RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub
  • If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio.
  • Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you.
  • Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view.
  • Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager.
  • Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant.
  • Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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