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Satchmo is coming along well in the Django/Python world. They are currently forking the payment module out of the main program. One of the big benefits of their

Satchmo is coming along well in the Django/Python world. They are currently forking the payment module out of the main program. One of the big benefits of their system is the highly customizable nature of the design and the nature of django's frameworks. Check it out here: www.satchmoproject.com I cannot attest to the ruby world but I hear great things about active merchant coupled with rails. I have used magento and did not like my experience in it at all. The php seemed clunky and one or two steps away from a vulnerability. Also the templates are all over the place and to make a change to one part of a page required changes in multiple files in a lot of cases. That and the magento is about slow as molasses.

Davertron 17y ago
One of our other developers looked at Satchmo before he moved on. That was probably a year ago; it seemed like it wasn't mature enough for what we were looking for. The problem is, I'd love to use python/django or ruby/rails, but it's a hard pitch to the boss if the platform we're looking at doesn't start off with many features. He really wants to avoid reinventing the wheel as much as possible. I've heard what you're saying about Magento around the web quite a bit; that the way it's laid out makes it very hard to work on, and that it can be very slow. I think if a django/rails project started off pretty close to what we were looking for, we could implement the missing features ourselves in less time than it would take to work in PHP, simply because of developer productivity increases in those languages/frameworks. Anyway, I'll take another look at Satchmo and see where it's at. I'd really love to avoid getting into another huge PHP mess again.
- weaksauce 17y ago
  They just had a new release for .9 so they are on the way. The nice thing about Django is the reusable aspect of the apps. (login, etc...)

Davertron 17y ago

One of our other developers looked at Satchmo before he moved on. That was probably a year ago; it seemed like it wasn't mature enough for what we were looking for. The problem is, I'd love to use python/django or ruby/rails, but it's a hard pitch to the boss if the platform we're looking at doesn't start off with many features. He really wants to avoid reinventing the wheel as much as possible. I've heard what you're saying about Magento around the web quite a bit; that the way it's laid out makes it very hard to work on, and that it can be very slow. I think if a django/rails project started off pretty close to what we were looking for, we could implement the missing features ourselves in less time than it would take to work in PHP, simply because of developer productivity increases in those languages/frameworks. Anyway, I'll take another look at Satchmo and see where it's at. I'd really love to avoid getting into another huge PHP mess again.

weaksauce 17y ago
They just had a new release for .9 so they are on the way. The nice thing about Django is the reusable aspect of the apps. (login, etc...)