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AChand
May 2, 2012, 6:59:54 PM5/2/12
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Hello! My team and I are in the planning phases of a Rails eCommerce
application. It is an online store that sells raw precious metals
wholesale. I am considering using Spree instead of building from
scratch. I was wondering if anyone here has worked with Spree and
what their experience was. Also any suggestions on open templates
for the system would be great!
THANKS!
application. It is an online store that sells raw precious metals
wholesale. I am considering using Spree instead of building from
scratch. I was wondering if anyone here has worked with Spree and
what their experience was. Also any suggestions on open templates
for the system would be great!
THANKS!
Saurabh Bhatia
May 2, 2012, 11:27:08 PM5/2/12
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Technically its a good product and mostly not really difficult to extend, however, you would have to get a fair understanding of what's already in the source code of spree-core for that.
I personally do not like spree, the documentation is sparse and mostly outdated. I even tried to contribute to the guides, but there are several version issues, as soon as I finish writing documentation for a particular version, it is already obsolete (sometimes within a matter of a week). They do not seem to be bothered about supporting extensions across the versions, so you would have to write the support yourself, an extension that is compatible with your version of spree(like they deprecated the way model decorators worked between 0.7 and 1.0 and that completely broke my extensions, so I had to figure out what was the new way and rewrite ). So in case you are going with it, do not plan on upgrade of spree versions.
So in the end, I found it easier to write an app from ground up, and maintain it. You can use an admin engine like activeadmin ( http://demo.activeadmin.info/admin ) to build the admin for your app.
This is an absolutely personal opinion based on my experience between spree 0.7.x and 1.x
Regards--
Best Regards
Saurabh
"If you ever wonder how to make a difference, just touch one life"
~Touching Lives~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrNwghfgUU
I personally do not like spree, the documentation is sparse and mostly outdated. I even tried to contribute to the guides, but there are several version issues, as soon as I finish writing documentation for a particular version, it is already obsolete (sometimes within a matter of a week). They do not seem to be bothered about supporting extensions across the versions, so you would have to write the support yourself, an extension that is compatible with your version of spree(like they deprecated the way model decorators worked between 0.7 and 1.0 and that completely broke my extensions, so I had to figure out what was the new way and rewrite ). So in case you are going with it, do not plan on upgrade of spree versions.
So in the end, I found it easier to write an app from ground up, and maintain it. You can use an admin engine like activeadmin ( http://demo.activeadmin.info/admin ) to build the admin for your app.
This is an absolutely personal opinion based on my experience between spree 0.7.x and 1.x
Regards
Best Regards
Saurabh
"If you ever wonder how to make a difference, just touch one life"
~Touching Lives~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrNwghfgUU
Dheeraj Kumar
May 2, 2012, 11:38:00 PM5/2/12
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Spree is a good e-commerce system for someone who can read and understand the spree code. The documentation is not extensive, and it's mostly theory and less code. I can understand that customizing Spree is very much possible, but the lack of sufficient documentation put me off. I chose a PHP based cart (ZenCart) finally, as it had clear guides.
Spree has many extensions, but they depend on certain versions of Spree, and many are not maintained to keep up with the newer releases.
Dheeraj Kumar
Abhishek
May 4, 2012, 1:55:19 AM5/4/12
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I too had some experience with spree recently and it was mostly good. I have not used any other e-commerce software, but the decision makers in my project had considered Magento, and went with Spree.
~abhishek
cmittal
May 21, 2012, 5:50:10 AM5/21/12
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I have developed a full-fledged ecommerce site using spree and also
have contributed back to spree by writing extensions, debugging
extensions etc. For any help/advice please do not hesitate to contact
me.
Chetan Mittal.
On May 4, 10:55 am, Abhishek <bigbelie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I too had some experience with spree recently and it was mostly good. I
> have not used any other e-commerce software, but the decision makers in my
> project had considered Magento, and went with Spree.
>
> ~abhishek
>
> >http://demo.activeadmin.info/admin) to build the admin for your app.
> > ~Touching Lives~ **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrNwghfgUU*
have contributed back to spree by writing extensions, debugging
extensions etc. For any help/advice please do not hesitate to contact
me.
Chetan Mittal.
On May 4, 10:55 am, Abhishek <bigbelie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I too had some experience with spree recently and it was mostly good. I
> have not used any other e-commerce software, but the decision makers in my
> project had considered Magento, and went with Spree.
>
> ~abhishek
>
>
> > This is an absolutely personal opinion based on my experience between
> > spree 0.7.x and 1.x
>
> > Regards
>
> > This is an absolutely personal opinion based on my experience between
> > spree 0.7.x and 1.x
>
> > Regards
>
> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:29 AM, AChand <webslinger2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello! My team and I are in the planning phases of a Rails eCommerce
> > application. It is an online store that sells raw precious metals
> > wholesale. I am considering using Spree instead of building from
> > scratch. I was wondering if anyone here has worked with Spree and
> > what their experience was. Also any suggestions on open templates
> > for the system would be great!
>
> > THANKS!
>
> > --
> > Best Regards
>
> > Saurabh
>
> > *"If you ever wonder how to make a difference, just touch one life"
>
> > Hello! My team and I are in the planning phases of a Rails eCommerce
> > application. It is an online store that sells raw precious metals
> > wholesale. I am considering using Spree instead of building from
> > scratch. I was wondering if anyone here has worked with Spree and
> > what their experience was. Also any suggestions on open templates
> > for the system would be great!
>
> > THANKS!
>
> > --
> > Best Regards
>
> > Saurabh
>
> > ~Touching Lives~ **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrNwghfgUU*
Piyush Gupta
May 21, 2012, 6:08:43 AM5/21/12
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Magento , we have also opted for Magento over others .
Reason : Cost of development was lower . I have personally worked on Spree for around 2 years now , but Magento seems lighter .
Also the mobile version of Magento was cool . My company is looking to customize it also , so all in all we went with Magento .
--
Regards,
Piyush R. Gupta
s : mba.piyushgupta
cmittal
May 21, 2012, 6:55:36 AM5/21/12
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I would say what Magento is to php, spree is to ruby. In Magento you
get inbuilt functionality such as 1. search facets, filters 2.
CCAvenue integration 3. OpenERP etc but in spree you need to integrate
these yourself. These are the only 3 issues which I faced while
developing my ecommerce site but overall developing on spree enhanced
my rails skills.
On May 21, 3:08 pm, Piyush Gupta <mba.piyushgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Magento , we have also opted for Magento over others .
>
> Reason : Cost of development was lower . I have personally worked on Spree
> for around 2 years now , but Magento seems lighter .
> Also the mobile version of Magento was cool . My company is looking to
> customize it also , so all in all we went with Magento .
>
> --
> Regards,
> Piyush R. Gupta
> s : mba.piyushgupta
> e : mba.piyushgu...@gmail.com
get inbuilt functionality such as 1. search facets, filters 2.
CCAvenue integration 3. OpenERP etc but in spree you need to integrate
these yourself. These are the only 3 issues which I faced while
developing my ecommerce site but overall developing on spree enhanced
my rails skills.
On May 21, 3:08 pm, Piyush Gupta <mba.piyushgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Magento , we have also opted for Magento over others .
>
> Reason : Cost of development was lower . I have personally worked on Spree
> for around 2 years now , but Magento seems lighter .
> Also the mobile version of Magento was cool . My company is looking to
> customize it also , so all in all we went with Magento .
>
> --
> Regards,
> Piyush R. Gupta
> s : mba.piyushgupta
Piyush Gupta
May 21, 2012, 7:37:27 AM5/21/12
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@chetan, Agreed.
If you want to learn while you develop for your ecom site, spree is good . Assuming you are in love with ROR.
If you prefer to save time and money and not much concerned of the tech behind then magento is better , as its easy to get devs for PHP etc but the same for ROR is pretty costly.
--
Regards,
Piyush R. Gupta
s : mba.piyushgupta
Hemant Kumar
May 21, 2012, 7:49:53 AM5/21/12
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Hello Piyush,
Don't make strawman arguments please. As far as I can tell no one argued that Magento was a bad choice or spree was better.
But
"as its easy to get devs for PHP"
By the rule we may as well abandon the ship and do everything in PHP. I mean seriously .... ?
Piyush Gupta
May 21, 2012, 8:24:49 AM5/21/12
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@Hemant ,
My apologies if I offended anyone, my point was simple. Cost wise we felt magento was better , and tech wise spree .
There is always a tradeoff , and due to the present supply-demand of php vs ROR , we opted PHP option. Not that some tech is better than another, at times its the cost which is a deciding factor or resources available and not the tech factor.
I am myself a ROR enthusiasts for many years, but at times we need to make decisions based on other factors as well, so to sum it up my 2 cents were just to make a point that you may reduce your initial fixed cost for setting up the site however scalability etc is debatable . :)
I know its a Ruby group , and we all are emotionally attached .
CHill !!! Cheers !
--
Regards,
Piyush R. Gupta
s : mba.piyushgupta
AC
May 25, 2012, 12:09:46 AM5/25/12
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Really appreciate all the feedback! Seems that Magento is set up for mobile commerce! That is a big plus. However, PHP is not an option for us. We are a Rails shop!
Thanks,
AC
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