Open Source Ruby on Rails Shopping Cart Released

CGIDir
Monday, March 20, 2006; 03:44 AM

Substruct is a production ready  e-commerce product that was released last week under a slightly modified Artistic License. It includes a content management system and a shopping cart component that is tied to Authorized.com.  Substruct is created by Subimage, a company with expertise in the field of web development and usability.

Currently the Substruct website lists two companies, that use the product: Skunk Studios, a gaming portal, and GenSelect, a pharmaceutics company.

Features of Substruct:

The first and only Ruby on Rails open source e-commerce project.
Released under a modified Artistic License
A replacement for old, brittle and crusty shopping cart packages
Cleanly designed, easy to extend and maintain
Implemented as a Rails Engine
Adheres to XHTML / CSS standards
Persona and scenario driven UI design
Extracted from real world code