Spree is a complete open source commerce solution for Ruby on Rails. It was originally developed by Sean Schofield and is now maintained by a dedicated core team. You can find out more about by visiting the Spree e-commerce project page.

Spree actually consists of several different gems, each of which are maintained in a single repository and documented in a single set of online documentation. By requiring the Spree gem you automatically require all of the necessary dependency gems. Those gems are as follows:

• spree_api
• spree_auth
• spree_core
• spree_dash
• spree_promo
• spree_sample

All of the gems are designed to work together to provide a fully functional e-commerce platform. It is also possible, however, to use only the pieces you are interested in. So for example, you could use just the barebones spree_core gem and perhaps combine it with your own custom authorization scheme instead of using spree_auth.

Start by adding the gem to your existing Rails 3.x application's Gemfile

gem 'spree'

Update your bundle

bundle install

Then use the install generator to do the basic setup

rails g spree:site

Now you just need to run the new migrations, and setup some basic data

rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

If you also want some sample products, orders, etc. to play with you can run the appropriate rake task.

rake spree_sample:load 

http://localhost:nnnn

http://localhost:nnnn/admin

The source code is essentially a collection of gems. Spree is meant to be run within the context of Rails application. You can easily create a sandbox application inside of your cloned source directory for testing purposes.

1. Clone the git repo

    git clone git://github.com/spree/spree.git spree
    cd spree
   

2. Install the gem dependencies

    bundle install
   

3. Create a sandbox rails application for testing purposes (and automatically perform all necessary database setup)

    rake sandbox
   

4. Start the server

    cd sandbox
    rails server
   

If you want to run all the tests across all the gems then

$ cd spree
$ rake spec     #=> 'this will run spec tests for all the gems'
$ rake cucumber #=> 'this will run cucumber tests for all the gems'
$ rake          #=> 'this will run both spec and cucumber tests for all the gems'

Each gem contains its own series of tests, and for each directory, you need to do a quick one-time creation of a test application and then you can use it to run the tests. For example, to run the tests for the core project.

$ cd core
$ rake test_app
$ rake spec
$ rake cucumber
$ rake          #=> 'this will run both spec and cucumber tests for the gem'

# If you want to run specs for only a single spec file
$ bundle exec rspec spec/models/state_spec.rb

# If you want to run a particular line of spec
$ bundle exec rspec spec/models/state_spec.rb:7

# If you want to run a single cucumber feature
# bundle exec cucumber features/admin/orders.feature --require features

# If you want to run a particular scenario then include the line number
# bundle exec cucumber features/admin/orders.feature:3 --require features

Spree is an open source project. We encourage contributions. Please see the contributors guidelines before contributing.