Spree

Integrating Solr Search with Spree

Oct 29, 2013

For the past 2 months I’ve been working on an e-commerce website where we’ve been using Spree. The built-in searching with Spree is pretty decent and simply builds SQL queries to execute against the database. While this is a great starting point we quickly got to a point where we needed to do more advanced searching – for example, we wanted the user to be able to filter by size, which is not something you can really accomplish with basic SQL queries.

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E-Commerce in Rails with Spree

Oct 24, 2013

My current project is an e-commerce website for a high-end retailer. This project started out as being completely Greenfield – the requirements outlined a basic e-commerce website with some added features and a intra-day ETL process.

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