Solidus Template

This is an opinionated template with my personnal preferences of a Ruby on Rails application with Solidus pre-installed and configured for quick use out-of-the-box.

What is included:

• Views are converted to HAML template
• Replaced the frontend with Bulma CSS
• FontAwesome Free is pre-configured
• RSpec is pre-installed

Things to note

I prefer to override views rather than use deface, you may expect all plugins that depend on deface not to be compatible with my template. This is usually not too much of a problem if you like getting your hands dirty, as you can simply take the HTML fragments in overrides and place them in corresponding views templates. This is my preference when dealing with Solidus extensions.

Ruby Version

This template targets Ruby version 3.0.0 and Rails 6.1 but may work with other versions.

Database

This template targets the PostgreSQL database, ensure you have a working instance of PostgreSQL.

Dependencies

My template is customized to use bulma and fontawesome.

Run the following command to install ruby gems and javascript dependencies.

$ bundle install
$ yarn install

A working installation of imagemagick is required to use Solidus.

How to use

Create a template on Github or clone the template

Clone the template

$ git clone git@github.com:biximilien/solidus-template.git MyAmazingNewStore

Rename the application

Find and replace the project name.

$ find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/SolidusTemplate/MyAmazingNewStore/g' {} \;

Update the repository

Create a new repository for your awesome new store and update the git remotes.

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:biximilien/MyAmazingNewStore.git

Database

To setup the database, run :

$ bundle exec rake db:create
$ bundle exec rake db:migrate
$ bundle exec rake db:seed

To setup the database with sample data just run :

$ bundle exec rake spree_sample:load

Tests

To execute the test suite, run :

$ bundle exec rspec

Or to execute individual tests, run :

$ bundle exec rspec spec/model/foobar_spec.rb