#298 Getting Started with Spree

Nov 14, 2011 | 10 minutes | Plugins, eCommerce

Spree allows you to quickly turn a Rails project into a full eCommerce application. Here I show how to set it up and configure the look and feel of the store.

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Stéphane Wirtel about 13 years ago

Thank you.

But did you have some problems with rails 3.1 ? the system seems to be very slow in development mode.

Ryan Bates about 13 years ago

It is a bit slow in development mode, see the performance section in the readme here for how to improve it. Also you may want to try Active Reload.

Stéphane Wirtel about 13 years ago

Thank you Ryan,

In fact, with Active Reload the server is really fast in production mode.

Thanks

Trung Lê over 12 years ago

If you try out the master branch of spree right now, you could see a vast spped boost in development because Spree now requires Rails 3.2 app.

Metajunkie over 12 years ago

As per their online documentation - Rails 3.2 is not yet supported with version 1.0 - but should be with the next minor release.

Even after installing Rails 3.1.4 I couldn't get the stable version to work. I love everything about rails - except issues that I seem to have regarding versions and dependencies. :( I use rvm - and that seems to be a nightmare when it doesn't work.

Stéphane Wirtel about 13 years ago

There is a bug report with rails 3.1 spree 0.70.1, nokogiri 1.5.0 and ruby-1.9.3-p0 https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues/561

And I have this bug ;-)

But for the slowness, you can use RailsDevTweaks

Ariel De La Rosa about 13 years ago

I hope to see the in depth how to create an theme for Spree. I guess it would result both, useful for the a particular developing task, but it could really help the spree community to boost on creating various themes for the engine.

However, it was excellent as always.

Thanks Ryan.

Ryan Bates about 13 years ago

From what I can tell, creating a theme in Spree is very similar to customizing the application like I showed here. The only difference is that you're working on an engine instead of the application. Check out the blue theme and the Rails Dog Radio theme for good examples.

Jeff Squires about 13 years ago

@Stephane - There's some tips on the spree blog for rails 3.1 performance:

http://spreecommerce.com/blog/2011/08/18/pre-compiling-assets-on-edge/

Trung Lê about 13 years ago

@Ryan: yet again you've done a great tutorial job. Thanks for covering this episode with Spree. In version 0.80, we plan to have the namespace for the sake integration with other such as RefineryCMS. I hope you will create another tutorial on Spree integration.

Ryan about 13 years ago

I used this script to install Image Magick on previous applications, seemed to work good: https://github.com/maddox/magick-installer

Giedrius Rimkus about 13 years ago

How about seeing to integrating into existing app. Thanks for screencast! Great job!

Todd Miller about 13 years ago

Any ideas as to why I receive the following error message when I run rake db:bootstrap --trace per the instructions in the readme for this episode?

This task will destroy any data in the database. Are you sure you want to
continue? [y/n] y
rake aborted!
undefined method set_preference' for nil:NilClass /home/family/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.1.1/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:inmethod_missing'
/home/family/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/spree_core-0.70.1/lib/spree/preference_access.rb:18:in block in set' /home/family/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/spree_core-0.70.1/lib/spree/preference_access.rb:17:ineach'
/home/family/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/spree_core-0.70.1/lib/spree/preference_access.rb:17:in set' /home/family/Desktop/APPS/Episodes/EPISODES/ryanb-railscasts-episodes-8f0f990/episode-298/store-after/config/initializers/spree_config.rb:1:in'

Alex over 11 years ago

BUMP.

I'm receiving the same error.

Alex over 11 years ago

I fixed it. Follow these steps:

Comment out everything in config/initializers/spree_config.rb
Run bundle exec rake db:migrate
Uncomment config/initializers/spree_config.rb
Run bundle exec rake db:bootstrap

bobplates about 13 years ago

ryan,

thanks for the railcast! as a noob, this is just what i have been looking for.

question.... the basic spree store that i got up and running seems to be missing a number of elements like the links for the shopping cart, search bar, etc.. and when you click on a product it goes to a blank page. this is different than what you illustrate here. i read that the basic spree install is basic... it just seems that the one i have set up is much more basic than the one illustrated. i would appreciate any advice or direction as to what i might be missing. i am using, spree 0.70.1, ruby-1.9.2-p290 and rails 3.1.1.

thanks,

bob

Gurban Haydarov about 13 years ago

THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL.

I am getting errors below on ruby192 and rails 3.1.0 when I run rails g spree:site

my gemfile contains gem "spree" instead of latest version because of dependency problem.

Also command does not modify assets css like in this tutorial and does not copy a lot of migration files.

ANY IDEAS ABOUT THOSE ISSUES THANKS!

          ruby 
        
DEPRECATION WARNING: class_inheritable_attribute is deprecated, please use class_attribute method instead. Notice their behavior are slightly different, so refer to class_attribute documentation first. (called from <top (required)> at /Users/ghaydarov/Desktop/spree/config/application.rb:7)
[DEPRECATION WARNING] Nested I18n namespace lookup under "activerecord.attributes.checkout" is no longer supported
      create  lib/spree_site.rb
      remove  public/index.html
      append  public/robots.txt
      append  db/seeds.rb

saurabh purnaye over 12 years ago

Hi,
We are using Spree 1.0.1 for development but getting a lot of issues with lot of extensions.
Even the official plugins Spree Social and Spree Active Shipping has issues, does any one know any alternatives to these above extensions?