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Summary

Solidus is a complete open source e-commerce solution built with Ruby on Rails. It is a fork of Spree.

Solidus 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 solidus gem you automatically require all of the necessary gem dependencies which are:

• solidus_api (RESTful API)
• solidus_frontend (Cart and storefront)
• solidus_backend (Admin area)
• solidus_core (Essential models, mailers, and classes)
• solidus_sample (Sample data)

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. For example, you could use just the barebones solidus_core gem and perhaps combine it with your own custom frontend instead of using solidus_frontend.

Getting started

To add solidus, begin with a rails 4.2 application. Add the following to your Gemfile.

gem 'solidus'
gem 'solidus_auth_devise'

Run the bundle command to install.

After installing gems, you'll have to run the generators to create necessary configuration files and migrations.

bundle exec rails g spree:install
bundle exec rake railties:install:migrations

Run migrations to create the new models in the database.

bundle exec rake db:migrate

Finally start the rails server

bundle exec rails s

The solidus_frontend storefront will be accessible at http://localhost:3000/ and the admin can be found at http://localhost:3000/admin/.

Installation options

Instead of a stable build, if you want to use the bleeding edge version of Solidus, use this line:

gem 'solidus', github: 'solidusio/solidus'

Note: The master branch is not guaranteed to ever be in a fully functioning state. It is unwise to use this branch in a production system you care deeply about.

By default, the installation generator (rails g spree:install) will run migrations as well as adding seed and sample data. This can be disabled using

rails g spree:install --migrate=false --sample=false --seed=false

You can always perform any of these steps later by using these commands.

bundle exec rake railties:install:migrations
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rake db:seed
bundle exec rake spree_sample:load

There are also options and rake tasks provided by solidus_auth_devise.

Performance

You may notice that your Solidus store runs slowly in development mode. This can be because in development each css and javascript is loaded as a separate include. This can be disabled by adding the following to config/environments/development.rb.

config.assets.debug = false

Developing Solidus

• Clone the Git repo

  git clone git://github.com/solidusio/solidus.git
  cd solidus

• Install the gem dependencies

  bundle install

Sandbox

Solidus 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.

This sandbox includes solidus_auth_devise and generates with seed and sample data already loaded.

• Create the sandbox application (DB=mysql or DB=postgres can be specified to override the default sqlite)

  bundle exec rake sandbox

• Start the server

  cd sandbox
  rails server

Tests

CircleCI

We use CircleCI to run the tests for Solidus as well as all incoming pull requests. All pull requests must pass to be merged.

You can see the build statuses at https://circleci.com/gh/solidusio/solidus

Running all tests

To execute all the tests, run this command at the root of the Solidus project to generate test applications and run specs for all projects:

bash build.sh

This runs using postgresql by default, but can be overridden by specifying DB=sqlite or DB=mysql in the environment.

PhantomJS is required for the frontend and backend test suites.

Running an individual test suite

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
bundle exec rake test_app
bundle exec rspec spec

If you would like to run specs against a particular database you may specify the dummy apps database, which defaults to sqlite3.

DB=postgres bundle exec rake test_app

You can also enable fail fast in order to stop tests at the first failure

FAIL_FAST=true bundle exec rspec spec/models/state_spec.rb

If you want to run the simplecov code coverage report

COVERAGE=true bundle exec rspec spec

Extensions

In addition to core functionality provided in Solidus, there are a number of ways to add features to your store that are not (or not yet) part of the core project. Here is the current set of Solidus-supported extensions:

Name	Description	Badges
Solidus Auth (Devise)	Provides authentication services for Solidus, using the Devise gem.
Solidus Gateway	Community supported Solidus Payment Method Gateways. It works as a wrapper for active_merchant gateway.
Solidus Legacy Return Authorizations	This is an extension for users migrating from legacy versions of Spree (2.3.x and prior) which had a different representation of and handling for return authorizations.
Solidus Multi Domain Store	This extension allows a single Solidus instance to have several customer facing stores, with a single shared backend administration system (i.e. multi-store, single-vendor).
Solidus - Virtual Gift Card	A virtual gift card implementation for Solidus.
Solidus Asset Variant Options	Adds the ability for admins to use the same image asset for multiple variants.
Solidus Avatax	Avatax integration with Solidus.
Solidus Signifyd	Integration with Signifyd that implements a fraud check prior to marking a shipment as ready to be shipped.

Contributing

Solidus is an open source project and we encourage contributions. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing.