I’ve just finished tagging a new release of Substruct, the open-source
Ruby
on Rails e-commerce and cms engine.
For the particulars, visit:
http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/11/17/substruct-0-95
There are tons of new features and an update UI. If you haven’t checked
it
out recently, now is the time.
Version 1.0 should be out before year’s end – including an easier way to
install for n00bz to rails, amongst other things. I’m really bad with
version numbers – this thing has been out about two years now and I
still
haven’t felt comfortable calling it 1.0 
Substruct website:
http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct
The release is available at:
http://svn.subimage.com/source/substruct/site/tags/rel_0.95/ (substruct
/
substruct – for SVN auth credentials)
Version 0.95
MAJOR UPGRADE…lots of new features. Do some thorough testing before
you
roll this out if you’re upgrading.
Upgrade steps:
1. script/generate plugin_migration
2. rake db:migrate
3. You should diff your application.rb file with
application.rb.example
in config_stubs. New before_filters have been added.
Added:
- Multiple images per product
– You can also set a default product image via drag & drop
- Product variations
- Product view pages
- Product discontinuation & quantity checking
- Tag grouping for products
- Customer logins
- Order history
- Wishlist support
- Related product support
- Inventory control now actually works
– Products with inventory <= 0 will not show on the public-facing
site
– Item quantities decremented after a successful order
- Live shipping rate calculation RIPPED out, replaced with shipping
rate table and new preferences UI.
– FedEx is a bitch to set up for most people, and this can achieve
the
same
damn thing.
Changed:
- ActiveMerchant now supported instead of Payment gem
- ContentNodeTypes removed in favor of SingleTableInheritance
– Blog, Page, and Snippet models added
- Cart now uses subModal instead of lame DIV at the bottom of the
page
- User interface / design
– Admin UI larger to work better on 1024x768 screens minimum
– Tweaked graphics and fonts to look better x-platform
– Public UI updated
- OrderUser now has a requirement that email addresses be unique
– Added migration to clean up dupe OrderUsers, and set proper
associations
on OrderAccount and OrderAddress
–
seth at subimage interactive
http://sublog.subimage.com
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Substruct - Open source RoR e-commerce software.
http://dev.subimage.com/projects/substruct