# Best e-commerce on rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 9, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135 "2008-05-09T08:41:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135/1 "2008-05-09T08:41:15Z")

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Greetings – I need to set up a shop online and I want to use Rails.  
However, most of the top shops, e.g. reviewed in

[http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/05/03/9-kick-ass-open-source-e-commerce-platforms-reviewed/](http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/05/03/9-kick-ass-open-source-e-commerce-platforms-reviewed/)

– are PHP-based. Shopify is reviewed which is a hosted solution, not  
my own hackable rails setup, and ActiveMerchant is mentioned which is  
just a payment processing package in Ruby, a part of Shopify, along  
with Liquid templates – still not a turn-key Rails solution. Are  
there any out there?

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**Author:** ![braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135/2 "2008-05-09T16:58:02Z")

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google “substruct”

a free rails ap based on shopify

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**Author:** ![braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135/3 "2008-05-09T20:58:21Z")

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Also [railskits.com](http://railskits.com) has a base Rails app that comes wired to do  
recurring billing.

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**Author:** ![braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@braver](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/braver)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-e-commerce-on-rails/137135/4 "2008-05-09T19:12:06Z")

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Check out Spree (formerly RailsCart):

[http://www.spreehq.org/](http://www.spreehq.org/)

-Kyle