The WebShop for the SIMtrace hardware can be found here. We are using a CA-Cert signed SSL certificate and your browser vendor might not like it.

Setting up, or mostly modifying the webshop was my first encounter with rails. In some ways it is a great framework, in others with a Smalltalk background there are some tears in my eyes. This is using spreecommerce because I wanted something that is not done in PHP and is not following the OpenCore business model.

The manual of spreecommerce is actually great from an engineering point of view, they describe the concepts, the models and how to modify it. But they are bit short on setting it up. There are some config options where no Graphical way to change them exists yet. So it is best to look into the app_configuration.rb of spree_core, e.g. to modify the default country.

There are still some bits that I would like to change, the code for my modification can be found on gitorious.