Open Source E-Commerce for Ruby on Rails
Practical Software for the Serious Developer
Overview > Showcase
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Yellow Bird Project
www.yellowbirdproject.com/The designers say: Yellow Bird Project had an existing brand and online store when the founders came to Dynamo. YBP collaborates with independent musicians and artists to produce t-shirts and other goods to benefit charities and socially-conscious organizations. The shirts are designed by the bands themselves, and the profits generated are turned over to the bands’ charity of choice. In order to accomplish everything set out in our vision for the brand's re-design, we knew we needed a powerful, flexible e-commerce toolset that didn't impede our creative standards. Spree was a perfect fit for us, both in terms of technology and adaptability. We are continuously working on custom extensions and contributing to the growth of Spree as often as possible. YBP is now our flagship online store thanks to everything Spree enabled us to accomplish.
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Envycasts
www.envycasts.comThe Rails Envy team turned to Spree when they needed a Rails based store for selling their screencast content. This site makes use of Paypal's Website Payments Standard for which a custom Spree extension was written. Since the site sells downloadable content, an S3 Product Extension was developed to support downloadable content from Amazon's S3 service. The website also allows users to sign up for a newsletter. This functionality was later shared with the community in the form of the subscription manager extension.
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Slouchback
www.slouchback.comWhen setting out to build SlouchBack.com, we knew we wanted a modern, flexible site for our unique approach to dorm furniture - and that meant deploying some of the latest web technologies not often seen in typical e-commerce operations. Spree to the rescue. We have been blown away by Spree's powerful built-in functionality as well as its significant extensibility. The development of SlouchBack.com largely consisted of a number of custom Spree extensions: one to override all customer-facing views and others to support the Amazon Flexible Payments Service, implement discount code functionality to tie in with our on-the-ground marketing efforts, and add images tied directly to product variations. Spree's modular approach keeps these extensions small and quick to develop - we have many more planned!
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Moving Boxes For Less
movingboxesforless.comLaunched on a shoe string budget and in under a week, this e-commerce site was built in Ruby on Rails using the open source platform, Spree, and is hosted at the up and coming Rails Hosting service: Webbynode.com. MovingBoxesForLess.com is a new entrant in the used box or recycled moving box industry. Although the previous owners of this domain got their url blacklisted, SEO best practices have MovingBoxesForLess.com slowly moving up the search rankings.
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Northern Flies
www.northernflies.comNorthern Flies is an excellent example of how you can build a simple commerce platform with Spree with only a minimal amount of customization. The site makes excellent use of Spree's taxonomy features for organizing its large product catalog. Checkout is done with the older style multi page checkout process and product prices are in Euros.
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Cosas de Regalo
www.cosasderegalo.comThis is another great site that takes full advantage of the i18n features of Spree. The site is customized for the Spanish locale with prices show in Euros and taxes calculated using VAT. Product search was implemented by leveraging the existing searchlogic support provided by Spree. Order management was easily adapted to provide integration with their partners. Support for the Spanish payment gateway, known as Sermepa, was achieved through minor customizations to the flexible Spree checkout process.
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Beca Designs
becadesigns.netThis is a nice and simple website that shows how Spree can easily be used for a small online craft business. In this particular case the authors decided to integrate the store under its own "shop" subdomian. Spree can easily be incorporated into your top level domain as well but this is a nice example of another approach.
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HerosModa.com.br
www.herosmoda.com.brThis is a simple clothing website that illustrates how easy it is to build a fully functional web application with Spree. The creator of this website reports that he was able to get this site up and running in only two days. The site was integrated with PagSeguro, which is a Brazilian payment system similar to Pay Pal. Heros make use of the internationalization features of Spree and is presented in Portuguese with the Brazilian currency.
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The Jewellery Collective
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Survival International
http://shop.survivalinternational.org/Survival International, a non-profit organization supporting education, advocacy and campaigns for tribal people, came to End Point to migrate an existing custom PHP ecommerce application to Spree. Spree allowed us to build a custom and powerful application for Survival International. Survival International required several custom shopping cart features such as donations, special promotions, and custom discounts. They also required custom navigation features in product optioning and product navigation. All custom functionality was completed using the flexible Spree extension functionality.