Spree is the webshop solution for Ruby on Rails, and Heroku is the place to host your Rails-applications – especially if you like free hosting :)
Finding myself in the need of a webshop, I decided to try to deploy Spree to Heroku. It wasn’t too hard, but it did take a few tricks to get Spree running on a server that doesn’t allow you to write to the file system.
I can’t say I have too much hands-on experience with Spree yet, but it seems to be have borrowed its extension concept from Radiant CMS, which happens to be one of my areas of expertise. So I put together an extension for Spree that will easily allow you to deploy the e-commerce system to Heroku.
Just follow the instructions in the README on Github.
I love web development
Hello, I'm Casper Fabricius. I have developed for the web for 10 years, and have been enjoying Ruby on Rails for the past 5.
My experience covers communities, shopping solutions, multi-language sites, heavy back-end lifting and a wide selection of more traditional websites. I like to integrate Ruby with Java and .NET through JRuby and IronRuby when it makes sense. I am passionate about test- and behavior-driven development, but at the same time I am pragmatic and believe in getting things done.
I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I work for a fantastic company: Podio. I do not currently take on freelance assignments.