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Posted by benfarnham
benfarnham
17,073 Points

Any recommendations for a good ROR framework to sell selling a large library of digital goods?

I am really wanting to start selling some digital goods online and currently have a reasonably large product list to add. All in all, I want to sell digital goods within the product page, give the shopper the ability to select a size for an image, and then the proper image is downloaded based on their attribute selection (similar to Pond5.com, here is an example here). I would love for this to carry over to video as well and offer different resolutions.

Any ideas on some Rails frameworks that I could build upon to make this happen? There are a lot of features I will want to add on as well which is why I selected Rails so I can scale in the future. I am not a fan of Wordpress and really don't feel it would fit my needs (I know there will be someone in here that will want to recommend Wordpress). I honestly felt the CMS itself was built strictly for blogging and then a lot of other developers got their hands on it and pushed it to do things it wasn't meant to do (Just my opinion).

Looking forward to hearing everyone thoughts. Thanks all!

2 Answers

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

The largest one would be https://spreecommerce.com/ which is open source and available at https://github.com/spree/spree. It should come with most things that you would need to run a store. If you're wanting to get better with payments and managing payment security with Rails you might want to consider https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/ as well.

benfarnham
benfarnham
17,073 Points

I actually just looked through Spree and it looks pretty robust. That is awesome. And double thank you because I really want to make sure security is high with this idea. Thank you!

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Is there a reason you're not considering building your own CMS from scratch within Rails? You'd get exactly what you want.

benfarnham
benfarnham
17,073 Points

I have considered it haha. But I would love if there was a framework I could build off of. Biggest concerns would be security which I don't have much experience with.