Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Interview)

Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring: Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X Show Notes: Sean Schofield, Spree founder and CEO of Spree Commerce, Inc. Brian Quinn, long time Spree contributor and CTO of SpreeCommerce Spree (née RailsCart) is a Rails engine that provides an out-of-the box, customizable ecommerce platform. Spree fully integrates into the Rails 3.1 Asset pipeline Rails engines have accelerated Spree adoption Spree is built on actively maintained community projects including Devise, Kaminari, Paperclip, ResourceController, State Machine, and ActiveMerchant. Spree recently closed a $1.5M funding round SpreeConf is geared to both business and developer audiences Everybody loves Sticker Mule Shoedazzle and SecondLife run highly customized versions of Spree. Spree has a growing list of community extensions. RailsDog Radio is a great showcase of Spree functionality. Grab the source on GitHub If you actually need a satellite radio, check out TSS Radio. Spree will unbox a new demo installation on Heroku just for you. Deface allows you to customize HTML ERB views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view. Ryan Bigg, Ruby Hero and co-author of Rails 3 in Action has joined Spree as community manager. Like Changelog Episodes, Spree is not SemVer compliant. Sean wants to explore using RailsAdmin into Spree Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!