Shopping-cart is a project mainly written in Ruby, based on the BSD-3-Clause license.
Spree is a complete open source commerce solution for Ruby on Rails. It was developed by Sean Schofield under the original name of Rails Cart before changing its name to Spree.
Refer to the Spree ecommerce project page to learn more.
Install spree Gem (can take a while to install missing gem dependencies)
(sudo) gem install spree
Create Spree Application
spree <app_name>
cd <app-name>
Create your database and edit the config/database.yml to taste.
rake db:create
You can skip this step if using sqlite3 as your database.
Bootstrap
rake db:bootstrap
Launch Application
script/server
http://localhost:nnnn/store
http://localhost:nnnn/admin
Clone the git repo
git clone git://github.com/railsdog/spree.git spree
cd spree
Create the necessary config/database.yml file
Install the gem dependencies
(sudo) rake gems:install
Bootstrap the database (run the migrations, create admin account, optionally load sample data.)
rake db:bootstrap
Start the server
script/server