Hello All, I have a fixed price contract to develop a website for a training organisation that will show courses they offer, dates, times and venues when they run. There is also a fair amount of typical CMS content, and the potential for more course content, so BrowserCMS seems well suited.
They also want to have bookings and payments online via PayPal, so I have been considering Spree, although on further analysis I only need/can use the shopping cart & checkout, plus the data structures (models) from Spree. I think I can avoid the user seeing the Spree backend or product pages (nothing personal, these pages are just more CMS than product like.) So far my preferred strategy is (not necessarily in order) : 1) merge the spree and BCMS tables into a single database. The only naming overlap is users, schema_migrations and potentially sessions. 2) if they can't share sessions, then patch BCMS to create/delete Spree sessions in parallel with its own sessions. 3) run Spree and BCMS independantly with Apache and Passenger on different subdomains. 4) write a BCMS module to load spree's models 5) patch the new admin panels into the BCMS admin 6) Create product selection forms on BCMS pages that use the Spree models, eventually constructing an order and redirecting the customer to the spree cart on its own subdomain. Any feedback/warnings/advice/encouragement/gasps of horror would be welcome. While this may not be following the golden path toward mountable apps, hopefully there will be some contribution toward a nice integration between these (IMHO) flagship Rails projects that together would cover the needs of so many business sites. Cheers, Gary McGhee Buzzware Solutions -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
