E-Commerce is hard

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E-commerce requires concrete tradeoffs rather than buzzwords; the Ruby ecosystem offers ready platforms like Spree (≈640 contributors, ~7,000 stars, 16,000 commits) that include features such as multi-warehouse splitting, a promotions engine, ActiveMerchant gateway support and the Money gem, but its checkout implementation uses callback-heavy logic that fires hundreds of SQL queries and hurts scalability. A community fork, Solidus (1.0 released, 1.1 beta, active Slack ~150), exists as an alternative; choose Spree/Solidus to save years of development but plan time to fix checkout performance, tax handling and local payment gateway integration.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:12Why e-commerce is complex
3. 11:22Ruby solutions
4. 15:57Spre-Commerce deep dive
5. 29:44Spre-Commerce problems
6. 32:57Solidus: new hope
7. 37:58Summary

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