Spree and Ecommerce in Rails (Changelog Interviews #69)

Wynn sat down with Sean and Brian from Spree to talk about ecommerce in Rails, SpreeConf, and their recent $1.5M funding round.

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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!