Take a look at Substruct. I have used it for a few clients, and it's pretty easy to setup and manage.
http://code.google.com/p/substruct/ On Friday 17 October 2008 11:52:33 Wayne M wrote: > I'm wondering if there are any decent e-commerce frameworks done in > Rails that are available for general use. My company is looking at > upgrading from our existing shoddy Classic ASP solution, and since I > am learning Rails in my spare time I'm tempted to look at using it as > a solution; right now we're evaluating the PHP-based cart Magento > (http://www.magentocommerce.com) which seems really robust, but I > don't know PHP beyond the bare basics of it. > > I'm looking for any Rails frameworks for a storefront, and I've seen > several but I don't know if they will fit our needs because we have > somewhat "strange" requirements: > > The main thing that we require is the ability to have multiple > storefronts, and filter a subset of products for each store. For > example, a furniture storefront with a unique layout, that only > displays furniture, and a "green" storefront that only shows green > products. This sounds like a job for individual controllers/views, > since if a layout has the same name as a controller it will override > the default application.html.erb file, but it also means that I would > need to manually create all of these separate controllers that contain > pretty much the same functionality; that doesn't sound very DRY to > me. As I said I'm only beginning with Rails; I've worked through the > Agile Web Development w/Rails book and I'm looking for something > meatier to dig my teeth into, but I'm sure that I won't be able to do > any really fancy metaprogramming for some time. > > The other thing we need is to separate customers into groups, and then > be able to assign a special price (not a discount off of a price, but > a totally separate price) based on what group the customer is in. > There are a few more flags that we need to track but these are trivial > with Rails. > > Basically I'm wondering if there's any tool already available that can > give me a leg up on this, or if I have to do it myself; I'm sure I > could as it doesn't seem like anything really complex, but why > reinvent the wheel? > > If anyone could offer some suggestions, I would appreciate it greatly. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
