Fork

Updating https://github.com/paulcc/spree-recommendations to use new Spree 1.1 style extension

Installation

To use this extension, add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'spree-recommendations', :git => 'git://github.com/vijayh/spree-recommendations.git'

Run:

$ bundle
$ bundle exec rails g spree_recommendations:install

If you want to use the recommended products partial, you just need to render it within a view, like so:

render "spree/shared/recommendations"

(e.g. within app/views/spree/products/_properties)

Lastly, you can override most things, including the the recommended products partial within your own app by creating your own in:

your_app/app/views/spree/shared/_recommendations

or the helper in:

your_app/app/helpers/spree/recommendations_helper

Compatibility: Currently tested and working with Spree 1.1.2

Spree Recommendations

Intro

Adaptation of BDQ's accessories extension to give a similar notion of recommendations which can be set by the administrator

Defaults to a random set of (n = 3) items, drawing more from the product's taxon if insufficient recommendation entries are available.

See paulcc's fork of spree-demo to see this code in actual use

Using this extension

No views included here: basically, you should be using some of your own short-detail product listing code for this.

Spree has a +shared/products+ partial, so you can feed in a list of recommendations to show, eg have something like this on your product show page:

<%= render :partial => "shared/products.html.erb", :locals => {:products => random_recommendations(@product, 4), :taxon => @taxon } %>

Future plans

• Adding a "customers also bought" method, derived by order analysis (soon)
• Tie into rating system?
• Frequent joint purchases?

Acknowledgements

Thanks to BDQ for the original accessories code, and to BryanMTL for the jquery code!