+1 for Spree iPhoned
On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Drew Purdy <[email protected]> wrote: > Short Answer: > > Use spree, it can do exactly what you want. > > Long Answer: > > 1) It will take less time to customize spree than build your own shopping > cart. You might think your own shopping cart is easy to build and w/ stripe > today it makes it much easier. But, if you start thinking about variations > of products, adjustments, promotions, and coupons... you'll realize there is > more logic than meets the eye to a shopping cart. > > 2) Spree is superior to ror ecommerce. The blog post was written about > spree prior version .60 and prior to spree being essentially rewritten for > rails 3 and rails supporting engines full force in rails 3.1. I could go > into a rebuttle issue by issue w/ the blog post but its not worth it. If you > read in the comments below I think there was enough discussion on that post > in 2010 to cover those issues. > > 3) Customizing spree is surprisingly easy. Just look at a few examples of > using deface to change things and you'll be up and running pretty quickly. > Spree has some amazing extensions and support that you will probably find an > addition to spree via an extension someone else wrote rather than doing it > yourself. > > 4) Take a look at spreeworks.com and shopify.com if the volume of orders and > customization is low these solutions might be a better fit. > > What is my experience with spree? I was a cofounder of www.stickermule.com > and we really pushed the boundaries on using spree and couldn't be happier w/ > the choice we made. > > Drew > > On Sunday, August 12, 2012 10:03:21 PM UTC-7, Scott Olmsted wrote: > Anyone used Spree or ror_ecommerce for an e-commerce site? My client wants to > sell biological samples by credit card or purchase order, post a few pdfs and > other files on the page for each product, and perhaps export a file to > Quickbooks, including taxable status. Will customizing Spree take longer than > creating from scratch? What about using ror_ecommerce? Any validity to the > author's claims and criticisms of Spree? (http://ror-e.com/posts/1) > > Thanks, Scott > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
