Spree Quickstart

How to quickly get started with Spree on Rails.

MySQL

Prepare MySQL for the Rails app.

CREATE USER spree_db_user@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secreto';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON spree_example_development.* TO spree_db_user@'localhost';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON spree_example_test.* TO spree_db_user@'localhost';

exit

You can verify that the user was correctly created:

mysql -u spree_db_user -p

Rails

Create the Rails app and enter that folder.

rails new spree-example -d mysql
cd spree-example

Setup the MySQL database

In config/database.yml update the username, password and database name that we just created.

default: &default                                                                
  adapter: mysql2                                                                
  encoding: utf8                                                                 
  pool: 5                                                                        
  username: spree_db_user                                                        
  password: 'secreto' 

development:                                                                     
  <<: *default                                                                   
  database: spree_example_development

test:                                                                            
  <<: *default                                                                   
  database: spree_example_test

Create the database.

rake db:create

At this point we should have an empty Rails app that is able to boot.

rails s
# visit 
# http://localhost:3000/

You'll see the usual:

Welcome aboard You’re riding Ruby on Rails!

Spree

Remember API only.

In Gemfile add

gem 'spree_backend', '3.0.0'
gem 'spree_sample', '3.0.0'

bundle install
rails g spree:install

Edit config/routes so that it looks like this:

  #get "/" => redirect("/admin")
  #get "/login" => redirect("/admin/login")
  root to: "spree/admin/orders#index"
 
  mount Spree::Core::Engine, :at => '/'

In config/initializers/devise.rb add

Setup app.

rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rake spree_sample:load

All done, run the app:

rails server
# visit

Remove frontend leftovers

rm -r vendor/assets/javascripts/spree/frontend/
rm -r vendor/assets/stylesheets/spree/frontend/