My boss is finally willing to listen to moving to a quality open sourced
platform for our e-commerce web site, but she needs ‘concrete examples’
to
believe that moving to ruby on rails is a good solution. And she needs
‘e-commerce’ pages (i.e. telling her twitter is built in rails doesn’t
impress her), preferably in the natural food industry.
We currently have a company that ‘built’ our website in PHP and we don’t
own our code, nor do we have access to the data (which drives me batty).
They were recently purchased and the new owner is attempting to green
mail
us and it’s an opportunity to get my boss to move to a better base where
we
own all the data and the code of the web site. I’m a ‘pre-beginner’ in
rails. I know enough to get started, but not enough to build a truly
dynamic website, let alone a fully functional e-commerce with a front
and
back end.
I was hoping people could give me some examples or a site that lists
sites
built in rails?
You could take a look at the list of sites on Spree’s website (scroll
half
way down) http://spreecommerce.com/. Spree is an open source e-commerce
platform written in Rails.
On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:17:10 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
us and it’s an opportunity to get my boss to move to a better base where we
own all the data and the code of the web site. I’m a ‘pre-beginner’ in
rails. I know enough to get started, but not enough to build a truly
dynamic website, let alone a fully functional e-commerce with a front and
back end.
I was hoping people could give me some examples or a site that lists sites
built in rails?
Shopify is built in rails (and quite a few libraries such as
delayed_job,
liquid, active merchant have been extracted from it over the years).
It’s
not opensource, so it doesn’t help you out directly but it does show
that
rails can quite happily do these things.
On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:17:10 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
us and it’s an opportunity to get my boss to move to a better base where we
own all the data and the code of the web site. I’m a ‘pre-beginner’ in
rails. I know enough to get started, but not enough to build a truly
dynamic website, let alone a fully functional e-commerce with a front and
back end.
I was hoping people could give me some examples or a site that lists sites
built in rails?
+1 to the existing recommendations for Spree and Shopify.
But seriously, the premise is fairly silly: the toolset used to build a
site has a minimal to nonexistent effect on its external appearance. It
would be like asking a (building-style, not software-style) architect
“I’m
thinking about building my next house out of wood. Can you show me some
previous projects that used wood?”.
I do realize the premise is silly, but my boss is my boss, one of those
people who thinks they know everything and anything new terrifies them.
the concept of open source (free) makes her think unstable and non
functional and that because we are a natural food company it can’t work
unless other natural food companies have worked. She thinks we have to
dump another 30-40K into some sort of 3rd party BS where we don’t own
code
or have access to the data.
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