GoogleMerchant

In development

Provides functionality for Google Merchant feed generation in .atom format. Additionally allows to create a model for Google Products Categories using Awesome Nested Set gem and build categories tree from remote plain text file provided by Google.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_admin-awesome_nested_set-dependent_selection', git: 'git://github.com/udovenko/google_merchant.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle install
$ rails generate google_merchant:install

Last command will copy initializer template and mount gem engine routes to your application.

Usage

This gem can be used for two purposes: Google Merchant feed generation and Google Product Categories tree building. Each part of functionality is optional but it's advisable to use them together.

Configuration

Check initializers/google_merchant.rb after gem installation to see the configuration example. Since the gem was created for custom shops without any e-commerce solutions like Spree, mapping products to feed view is just an array generation within a proc., so you can manage feed tags content absolutely without restrictions.

Feed

By default, feed is available on demand as a controller action by route google_merchant/feed.atom. This means it will be always generated again for each request, which could be expensive for a big amount of products. In this case consider feed file generation.

To generate feed file according to relative path and format given in configuration, execute:

$ rake google_merchant:feed:generate

You can use Whenever gem to schedule feed generation as frequently as required:

every 1.day, :at => '5:00 am' do
  rake 'google_merchant:feed:generate'
end 

Categories tree

Building Google Product Categories tree requires additional table in your application DB and Awesome Nested Set gem. To create categories table copy migration from gem and migrate your schema:

$ rake google_merchant:install:migrations 
$ rake db:migrate

This will create google_merchant_categories table. It's empty and requires to be populated with data. To do so run update task:

$ rake google_merchant:categories:update

It will take some time. Be sure that you set up proper taxonomy_file_url in the configuration. By default en-US taxonomy is used.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/active_admin-awesome_nested_set-dependent_selection/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request