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Spree Commerce Blog

spreecommerce.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009

Spree Commerce's company blog covers its open-source Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform, release news, security, and online retail topics.

What HN saysHN commenters recommend Spree as a leading Rails e-commerce option, with one customizing it for a client and praising responsive developers.
20HN people shared it
16linked it in comments
10stories submitted
21story points
10 years agolast shared
2009people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Homepage
    12 people · first shared 2010
  2. 2
    The Future of Spree Open Source Software
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Spree 1.0.0 Released
    1 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Latin America is Poised for an E-Commerce Boom
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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    Novel Ways of Using Dokku for E-Commerce
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    Why Site Search and Navigation Matter
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Google Express and the Future of E-Commerce
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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  10. 10
    Making the Right Data Driven Decisions
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Features
    1 people · first shared 2009
  12. 12
    Tour
    1 people · first shared 2010
  13. 13
    Demo
    1 people · first shared 2012
  14. 14
    Spreeconf DC speaker highlight john feminella
    1 people · first shared 2013

What HN people wrote when they linked it

benburton · 2013-01-24
If PHP is a constraint, I suppose I understand using it. I would think that Spree (http://spreecommerce.com/) would be the best option, all things being equal.
ninjastar99 · 2012-01-11
Really love Lemonstand (http://www.lemonstandapp.com). Super well developed and has been easy to customize. Great support. For simple, quick projects, I've used Shopify (hosted) and had a very good experience with it. Their team is very active and constantly adds new features and improvements. Our experience with Magento was a mess - we found it very difficult to work with, and far overkill for what we needed. I've heard good things about Spree (http://www.spreecommerce.com), but haven't used it myself yet.
JonnieCache · 2011-06-06
The most prevalant rails one is Spree: http://spreecommerce.com I'm in the opening stages of building a spree site right now, and at this early point it seems really good. The developers are responsive on irc and on the list, and the repo gets regular pushes. Its a rails3 engine, and makes full use of this and other rails3 features, plus the devs have extensive plans to use the various 3.1 improvements. It's really modular; the spree gem is actually a meta-gem with deps pointing to other gems, 'spree-core', 'spree-auth', 'spree-promo' etc. You make all your customisations to it in the same way, by decorating the various core classes, following the same pattern as the spree submodules themselves. Oh and it has shitloads of tests, both rspec and cucumber/capybara. Basically it seems pretty sweet.
blasdel · 2010-01-25
http://spreecommerce.com is the best I could find, I've recently been customizing it for a client.
jonah · 2017-01-07
If you're not tied to PHP, check out Spree[1] or its fork Solidus[2]. [1] https://spreecommerce.com/ [2] http://solidus.io/
mtmail · 2015-08-28
Have a look at https://spreecommerce.com (https://github.com/spree/spree). You'd still have to setup the backend though I think they offer hosting solutions now. Shopify has an extensive API. You'd be able to create your own frontend with or without their shopping cart, with or without their checkout process and with or without third-party whitelabel shipping.
Hates_ · 2015-01-29
The example that springs to mind is Spree (https://spreecommerce.com/). Spree itself is open source, but Spree Commerce make their money from support, implementation and premium offerings.
davidandgoliath · 2013-05-15
For a developer? Hm, foxy cart, or spree (open source): http://spreecommerce.com/
timmaah · 2012-01-10
Not having a demo available is beyond ridiculous. I asked about it in their forums and was told to email sales. I went ahead with the purchase anyway. It would not take much for them to setup a personal sandbox demo just like spree commerce does ( http://spreecommerce.com/demo ) It can't be that they don't want people to think the product is too complicated before purchase, as their after purchase help docs are limited and they have no personal follow up or checkin.
clyfe · 2011-09-13
Your question is too broad, so I'm going to give a broad answer. I would use the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework and customize the Spree http://spreecommerce.com/ E-Commerce software.
noibl · 2011-07-15
The semantic information is already in the selector that pops up, e.g. '.headline'. I don't see why they need to store anything elaborate to make that portable. The scope of the change (document, document type, section, site) isn't shown but presumably it defaults to 'type'. BTW the in-place edit features remind me a lot of this[1] use of Deface[2] in Spree[3] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgQHzYcxIQ [2] https://github.com/railsdog/deface#readme [3] http://spreecommerce.com/
Throlkim · 2010-08-16
I'd highly recommend Spree (http://spreecommerce.com/tour). It's based around the payment processor that Shopify uses, and it supports a lot of the more advanced Google Analytics features.
vital101 · 2009-11-09
http://spreecommerce.com/features seems like a good fit for what you're looking for.
jxf · 2013-10-29
As a user of Docker, I'm excited. But as someone who uses the dotCloud PaaS right now to run a company, I'm a little annoyed, mostly at myself for not seeing this coming. Clearly there's a diversion of resources away from the dotCloud PaaS to Docker, and that's going to have a toll somewhere. Despite the company's reassurances that everything is business as usual, I know that Docker [the project] is just too much of a beast and eventually the Docker [the company] will need to move on from the PaaS. (I should know, since I gave a talk about how "Docker is the future" just a few weeks after Docker was announced.) [0] I'm not really sure what my choices are now, either; DigitalOcean, I guess? I don't want to manage servers myself, and I want to be able to pay on the memory-usage axis for my app instances (which Heroku doesn't allow). I wasn't super excited by DO last year, but maybe things have changed. My current "light at the end of the tunnel" is hoping that the Docker-based PaaS ecosystem matures, but for now none of them seem like they're mature enough, and it's tough to keep up with all of them since it seems like another one pops up each week. Here's my wishlist: -- (1) command-line client for deployment via git repository and doing anything related to deployment (add new instances, remove instances, create new environments, assign domains to the PaaS router, etc.) -- (2) clear pricing -- (3) I can pay for more memory as I need it -- (4) ability to specify…

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