Alchemy CMS Solidus Integration

The World's Most Flexible E-Commerce Platform meets The World's Most Flexible Content Management System!

This gem is a Alchemy CMS and Solidus connector.

For now it does this:

It provides tabs in Alchemy and Solidus menus to easily switch between both backends
It offers two new Essences for Alchemy called EssenceSpreeProduct and EssenceSpreeTaxon that you can use to place Spree products and/or Taxons on your pages.
Shares admin sessions and user abilities between Alchemy and Solidus.

Compatibility

Solidus

This version runs with Solidus 1.0 and above.

Alchemy

This version runs with Alchemy 3.2 and above.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy-solidus', github: 'AlchemyCMS/alchemy-solidus', branch: 'master'

Install the gem with:

$ bundle install

Authentication system installation

Both Alchemy and Solidus come without an authentication system in place. You will need to choose an authentication system yourself. There are 3 available options. Whichever you choose, you need to instruct Solidus & Alchemy about your choice of authentication system.

Here are the steps for each option:

1. Option: Use Solidus Auth Devise

Recommended for:

An existing Solidus installation (gem 'solidus_auth_devise' should already be in your Gemfile).
You are just adding Alchemy

To use Solidus Auth Devise, instruct Alchemy to use the Spree::User class:

# config/initializers/alchemy.rb
Alchemy.user_class_name = 'Spree::User'
Alchemy.current_user_method = :spree_current_user

If you put Spree in it's own routing namespace (see below) you will want to let Alchemy know these paths:

# config/initializers/alchemy.rb
Alchemy.login_path = '/store/login'
Alchemy.logout_path = '/store/logout'

2. Option: Use Alchemy Devise

Recommended for:

An existing Alchemy installation
You don't have an authentication system and don't want to role an authentication system on your own.

Add alchemy-devise to your Gemfile

# Gemfile
gem 'alchemy-devise', '~> 3.2'

and install it:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rails g alchemy:devise:install

Run the Solidus installer:

NOTE: Skip this if you already have a running Solidus installation.

$ bundle exec rails g spree:install

Then run the solidus custom user generator:

$ bundle exec rails g spree:custom_user Alchemy::User

Now you'll need to instruct Solidus to use the Alchemy User class:

# config/initializers/spree.rb
...
Spree.user_class = "Alchemy::User"
...

and tell Solidus about Alchemy's path helpers:

# lib/spree/authentication_helpers.rb
    ...
    def spree_login_path
      alchemy.login_path
    end

    def spree_signup_path
      alchemy.signup_path
    end

    def spree_logout_path
      alchemy.logout_path
    end
    ...

3. Option: Build their own authentication

Please follow the spree custom authentication and the Alchemy custom authentication guides in order to integrate your custom user with Solidus and Alchemy.

In either case

Install the migrations

$ bundle exec rake alchemy_solidus:install:migrations

Run the installer of Alchemy

$ bundle exec rake alchemy:install

and follow the on screen instructions.

Render Alchemy Content in Solidus Layout

If you plan to render the Alchemy site in the Solidus layout add the following to your initializer:

# config/initializers/alchemy.rb
require 'alchemy/solidus/use_solidus_layout'

Render Alchemy Content in Solidus views

If you plan to render Alchemy content in your Solidus views (ie. a global header or footer section), you need to include the Alchemy view helpers and language store in your Solidus controllers with the following addition to your initializer:

# config/initializers/alchemy.rb
require 'alchemy/solidus/alchemy_in_solidus'

Routing

For routing you have a few options.

Place both engines in their own namespace:

# config/routes.rb
mount Spree::Core::Engine => '/store'
mount Alchemy::Engine => '/pages'

Put Solidus at the root level and Alchemy in its own namespace:

# config/routes.rb
mount Alchemy::Engine => '/pages'
mount Spree::Core::Engine => '/'

Put Alchemy at the root level and Solidus in its own namespace:

# config/routes.rb
mount Spree::Core::Engine => '/store'
mount Alchemy::Engine => '/'

Put both engines in the root level

# config/routes.rb

# Make Alchemy's root page have higher priority than Spree's root page
root to: 'alchemy/pages#show'

mount Spree::Core::Engine => '/'

# Must be last so it's catch-all route can render undefined paths
mount Alchemy::Engine => '/'

Usage

Create a new Element for Alchemy

# config/alchemy/elements.yml
- name: product
  contents:
  - name: spree_product
    type: EssenceSpreeProduct

- name: product_category
  contents:
  - name: spree_taxon
    type: EssenceSpreeTaxon

Generate the views

$ rails g alchemy:elements --skip

Place this element on a page layout

# config/alchemy/page_layouts.yml
- name: product
  elements: [product]
- name: products
  elements: [product_category]

You can haz Solidus product and taxons!

# app/views/alchemy/elements/_product_view.html.erb
<%= element.ingredient('spree_product') %>

# app/views/alchemy/elements/_product_category_view.html.erb
<%= element.ingredient('spree_taxon') %>

Alchemy :heart: Solidus!

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request