Fast Checkout with Backbone.Marionette Posted August 05, 2013 by Ryan Bigg Comments There’s been a lot of buzz recently around using a JavaScript frontend to talk to a Ruby backend in order to make websites faster. In particular, the three “hot” frameworks at the moment are Ember , An...
A Better Spree PayPal Express Extension Posted July 29, 2013 by Ryan Bigg Comments We’ve noticed recently that a lot of people have been wanting to use Spree and PayPal Express Checkout together and that those people have been coming against problems when they attempt to do so with th...
Posted July 01, 2013 by Washington L Braga Jr Comments Rails 4 was released last week and the Spree team has already made significant efforts to support it. We’ve been doing some work on a rails4 branch on the last couple of weeks. You might want to checkout that branch logs to get an...
Posted May 29, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Our third SpreeConf was a great success! It was great to be able to get together with Spree users from around the world. This was our largest SpreeConf yet, and everyone loved the fantastic talks and networking opportunities. We are so pro...
Model Translations in Spree internationalization Posted May 27, 2013 by Washington L Braga Jr Comments Coming with the Spree 2.0 release is a brand new version of the Spree internationalization project (spree_i18n ). The extension now makes use of the awesome globalize3 gem to allow u...
Posted May 19, 2013 by John Dyer Comments Spree 2.0.0 has now been officially released. It’s been exactly five months since the last release -although we have had several minor releases along the way. This has been a massive community effort with 1,412 commits by 35 contributors affec...
Posted May 19, 2013 by John Dyer Comments Spree 2.0.0 has now been officially released. It’s been exactly five months since the last release -although we have had several minor releases along the way. This has been a massive community effort with 1,412 commits by 35 contributors affec...
Founding Partner and CTO at FreeRunning Technologies Clarke is a programmer with over 13 years experience with the last 5 primarily focused on working in Ruby and Rails. He founded FreeRunning Technologies in 2008 and focuses on how to provide the most value to his clients and making ...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: John Feminella Posted May 02, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Thursday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Denis Ivanov who will be talking about how to perfect your e-commerce front end at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washington, DC. Today...
Networking Opportunities at SpreeConf DC Posted April 23, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We’ve built lots of networking opportunities into the SpreeConf schedule to allow you to connect with the Spree community and build lasting relationships to improve and grow your business. You’ll ...
Registration Now Open for SpreeConf Lightning Talks! Posted May 01, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments The SpreeConf Lightning Talks registration is now open to all SpreeConf DC registrants! The Lightning Talks are always one of the highlights of SpreeConf. The talks range from being on t...
Lead Developer at Downshift Labs Denis is a software developer who has been professionally working with Ruby on with Rails since version 1.2.2 back in 2006. During his SpreeConf talk, Denis will share his experience perfecting the front end of a unique e-commerce store that began over...
We’ve been grappling with the issue of complex Spree stores that require sophisticated shipping and warehouse logic for several years now. While it has always been manageable to get this to work on individual store basis, a more general solution that would be useful for all stores has...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Ryan Bigg Posted April 23, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Thursday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Adil Wali who will be talking about lessons learned scaling multiple e-commerce businesses at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washington, D...
We’ve built lots of networking opportunities into the SpreeConf schedule to allow you to connect with the Spree community and build lasting relationships to improve and grow your business. You’ll have a chance to meet face-to-face with the creators of Spree, Sean Schofield and Brian Q...
Rails Dog Announced as SpreeConf Sponsor Posted April 22, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We’re delighted to announce that RailsDog , which specializes in Ruby on Rails web development, Spree e-commerce development, and UI/UX design, will be sponsoring the SpreeConf after party. SpreeC...
Top Five Reasons to Come Back to SpreeConf Posted April 18, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments If you’ve attended SpreeConf before you know what a great experience it is. We want to make sure that you don’t miss out on the great lineup of speakers and events we have planned for the confer...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Adil Wali Posted April 18, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Thursday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Gregor MacDougall who will be talking about his experience migrating a large scale PHP based e-commerce store to Spree at SpreeConf DC May ...
Most of you probably know that Sean Schofield and Brian Quinn are the co-founders of Spree. But what you might not know is how the Spree open source project started and how Sean and Brian met. Sean created the Spree open source project in July 2007 after trying several open source alt...
Posted April 15, 2013 by Andrew Hooker Comments Why new guides? A while back, we put a lot of work into creating documentation for our API independent of the developer guides. Our designer Alexey (aka devilcoders ) did a great job on the API guides, and we wanted to bring that great w...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Sandi Metz Posted April 11, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Tuesday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Gregor MacDougall who will be speaking about his experience migrating a large scale PHP based e-commerce store to the Spree platform at Spr...
Free Custom Stickers for SpreeConf Registrants Courtesy of Sticker Mule! Posted April 10, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We are really excited to announce FREE custom stickers courtesy of Sticker Mule for all SpreeConf registrants who sign up and submit their artwork by April 26th. St...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Gregor MacDougall Posted April 09, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Thursday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Peter Berkenbosch who will be discussing how to thoroughly test your Spree store at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washington, DC....
Braintree Sponsors SpreeConf DC, May 20th - 21st Posted April 04, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We’re really excited to announce Braintree , the fastest growing payments platform for online and mobile commerce, as the happy hour sponsor for SpreeConf DC . SpreeConf is a two-day event...
Customer Spotlight - Hucklebury Posted April 03, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We’d like to introduce you to Hucklebury , a vertically-integrated online retailer selling better fitting, high quality men’s shirts at reasonable prices. Learn how they are using Spree and what marketing ...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Peter Berkenbosch Posted April 02, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last Thursday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Eric Koester who will be discussing how to capitalize on the micro-prenuer revolution at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washington...
Manager/Director, Demand Generation/Marketing Automation To apply for this position please send your resume to [email protected] This is a manager/director level position, depending on the successful candidate. Position reports to COO and is based at Spree headquarters in Bethesd...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Eric Koester Posted March 28, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments On Tuesday we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Chris Mar who will be discussing the new split shipments functionality that’s coming in Spree 2.0 at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washin...
Posted March 27, 2013 by Ryan Bigg Comments Coming in Spree 2.0 – Rearchitecting the Spree Core! In my last post, I covered one of the features that will be going into Spree 2.0 – improved support for internationalization . In this post, I’m going to cover a major rearchitecting of Sp...
Get to Know SpreeConf DC Speaker: Chris Mar Posted March 26, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments Last week we introduced you to SpreeConf speaker, Nick Gauthier who will be discussing how to put Rails 4 into Action at SpreeConf DC May 20th – 21st in Washington, DC. This week we’d like to i...
