# E-Commerce, Anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [December 17, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819 "2008-12-17T08:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/1 "2008-12-17T08:11:30Z")
I need to build a site with shopping cart functionality and I was hoping to develop the site with Radiant. Has anyone built an e-commerce site with Radiant? Any ideas, tips or tricks you’d like to share? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/2 "2008-12-17T20:35:30Z")
Todd Mcgregor wrote: > I need to build a site with shopping cart functionality and I was hoping > to develop the site with Radiant. Has anyone built an e-commerce site > with Radiant? Any ideas, tips or tricks you’d like to share? Check out Spree - [http://spreehq.org/](http://spreehq.org/). You could run it as a sub domain, like [shop.mydomain.com](http://shop.mydomain.com). ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/3 "2008-12-19T11:59:19Z")
Todd Mcgregor wrote: > I need to build a site with shopping cart functionality and I was hoping > to develop the site with Radiant. Has anyone built an e-commerce site > with Radiant? Any ideas, tips or tricks you’d like to share? > > Thanks. You may want to have a look at [http://railskits.com/](http://railskits.com/) … ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/4 "2008-12-26T21:45:06Z")
Radiant would be a great catalog system for e-commerce. ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/5 "2009-01-12T20:32:34Z")
Chris Poldier wrote: > Radiant would be a great catalog system for e-commerce. I’m interested in this… but I don’t know how to use a Radiant page as a kind of template itself for a given model. As an example, let’s call it “Product” (I’m imaginative), and we have a nice admin section to do CRUD on it. We need, from within a Radiant page, to call something like \ (just an example). Then we would also need a way to iterate over these, and filter them, too… Any ideas? nachokb ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/6 "2009-01-12T20:59:25Z")
The best eCommerce source for Ruby on Rails is Spree [http://spreehq.com](http://spreehq.com) Radiant is an excellent CMS, and i’m sure that you could use it for an eCommerce solution, but i would use Spree. Jason ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/7 "2009-01-12T21:26:34Z")
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:58 PM, jason white \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > The best eCommerce source for Ruby on Rails is Spree [http://spreehq.com](http://spreehq.com) > Radiant is an excellent CMS, and i’m sure that you could use it for an > eCommerce solution, but i would use Spree. Have you ever used Spree? Can it be set up as an extension to use with share\_layouts? I have a shop on Shopify because it seemed like a logical choice at the time. It would be cool to move that over. ~Nate ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/8 "2008-12-17T20:48:59Z")
Ben M. wrote: > Todd Mcgregor wrote: > > > I need to build a site with shopping cart functionality and I was hoping > > to develop the site with Radiant. Has anyone built an e-commerce site > > with Radiant? Any ideas, tips or tricks you’d like to share? > > Check out Spree - [http://spreehq.org/](http://spreehq.org/). You could run it as a sub domain, > like [shop.mydomain.com](http://shop.mydomain.com). Thanks Ben, I’ll look into this further. According the the “Planned Features” section on this page [http://spreehq.org/features](http://spreehq.org/features) it looks like integration with Radiant is already being considered. ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/9 "2009-01-14T03:20:30Z")
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Sean Schofield [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > > Have you ever used Spree? Can it be set up as an extension to use with > > share\_layouts? > > What do you mean by share\_layouts? The share\_layouts extension: _[http://tinyurl.com/share-layouts](http://tinyurl.com/share-layouts)_ It allows you to share Radiant view with your own controllers. Theoretically you could have a Spree project and a Radiant project share the same views. It would be great if somebody could figure out a way to turn Spree into an extension. Sadly, my Rails\_fu is just not up to the task, I could use this. ~Nate ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/10 "2009-01-14T00:59:04Z")
> Have you ever used Spree? Can it be set up as an extension to use with > share\_layouts? What do you mean by share\_layouts? > ~Nate Sean ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/11 "2009-01-14T12:54:01Z")
> The share\_layouts extension: _[http://tinyurl.com/share-layouts](http://tinyurl.com/share-layouts)_ > > It allows you to share Radiant view with your own controllers. > Theoretically > you could have a Spree project and a Radiant project share the same > views. So basically you would want Spree to be able to “fit” inside of existing Radiant layouts? That might be possible but it would take quite a bit of experimenting. > It would be great if somebody could figure out a way to turn Spree into > an > extension. Sadly, my Rails\_fu is just not up to the task, I could use > this. Eventually someone will get around to trying it. Just the other day somebody was asking about this on spree-user > **[Gmail](https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?dsh=S-1022696373%3A1688560685333736&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fu%2F0%2F&emr=1&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fu%2F0%2F&ifkv=AeDOFXgsGBd9pSUl_40xd2B0G-ebp8rUJBUJXK6-UQZ3Bn22fdcxuGObpgIu1w_b3MLbw6lZudDvgA&osid=1&passive=1209600&service=mail&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin)** > > Gmail is email that’s intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. I will attempt it myself if a paying client ever needs sophisticated CMS - Spree (as opposed to simple CMS which can already be handled without Radiant.) Btw, Spree based its extension system on Radiant, so Radiant users will feel somewhat at home when working in Spree. > ~Nate Sean ---
**Author:** ![toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@toddq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/toddq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/e-commerce-anyone/155819/12 "2009-01-14T13:49:13Z")
Hi, I was looking for a simple solution to integrate a small web shop into radiant. The key feature was that the webshop should use the layout from radiant. So I programmed a new extension called simple\_web\_shop. It’s still in development but if you are interested, have a look at the following link: [http://sa.pindula.net/shop](http://sa.pindula.net/shop) The extension shows you all the products you can edit via the admin interface. Its just a simple one form web shop. But it might be useful for small companies selling up to, lets say 5 to 10 products. Patrick