Ruby on Rails Shopping Cart
Apr 23
As a spare time project I’ve been working on rewriting Jamie’s shopping cart using Ruby on Rails. One reason is that her current x-cart system is just too difficult to configure and tweak from a display standpoint. There’s a lot we’d like to do with data presentation and while the x-cart software is very customizable, it’s a huge hassle to tweak.
I have a decent amount of experience writing shopping cart software using ColdFusion and decided to take a shot with Rails. We wrote a CF version when I was working for Eternal Media and you can see it in action at Labrador Apparel. I wrote a very basic version over six years ago that’s still running at Bob Ellis Shoes. I’m hoping to see how Rails speeds up the development cycle and allows me to build something that is easily configurable. I plan on posting the source when it’s available so stay tuned.
You might want take a look at this open source project http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct
Its a shopping cart on rails..
If you read Substruct’s license, you’ll find that it isn’t really “open source” as most people understand the term. The license is overly restrictive and makes Substruct undesirable as a community-based project. So by all means — please continue developing your shopping cart solution! The Rails community awaits its release.
I downloaded Substruct a while back, but didn’t have a chance to read through the licensing agreement. My Rails shopping cart project has come to a screeching halt since I got sidetracked by another project. I’m hoping to pick it back up in the near future, but have to get this project finished before I can. I apologize for any inconvenience and one thing’s for sure, the Rails community needs a good shopping cart base to start from.