Drew, Great explanation, I have quite a few questions after taking a look at your awesome site! I am in the process of transitioning from a simple wordpress CMS to Spree and so far I'm leaning towards a bootstrap front-end for the site. What kind of front end does Stickermule use? Is it a gem with customization or completely redone from scratch?
Thanks for the feedback, Mario On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:20:35 PM UTC-5, Drew Purdy 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
