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![solidusconf speaker martin tomov](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/a4cccba1347c3ca3340bba17c315fcb2be44dc4b-460x460.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please gives us an introduction for those who don’t know you

My name is Martin Tomov, I am a full stack developer working primarily on ecommerce projects for Boomer Digital. I am based in London, UK.

#### How long have you been working with Spree and Solidus?

Almost 4 years now.

#### What does your work look like on an average day?

Since most of our clients are based in the US, it is really in the morning that I have to write code. My afternoons are usually busy with team and client communication, code review, and debugging of problems. In terms of development, it varies a lot - sometimes I just do frontend work with Alchemy CMS, other times I develop full features which have both a frontend and a backend part (like Gift Cards, or ElasticSearch integrations). There are also times when I take the role of a DevOps, and adjust server configurations manually, or using Puppet.

#### That sounds very familiar. Can you give us an overview of what your SolidusConf talk is going to be about?

My upcoming talk will present techniques to allow for a very efficient synchronization of product data with ElasticSearch, which is a fairly common problem when integrating with any data services. Usual approaches perform a sync with the elastic service on every model change, but this precludes adding of optimizations to the process. By placing an intermediate storage table, we can efficiently preload data, serialize concurrently, reduce network trips to the elastic service, and provide ourselves with a nice view of our serialized data. I will also speak about modelling Taxon tree data to Elastic mappings, so we can directly display the search results onto the frontend without going back to our database, as this seems to also be an area which is not trivial to implement.

#### Very interesting. What were some of the biggest challenges you encountered while developing this?

One of the goals was to efficiently pre-load data when performing the serializations of a batch of products, and avoid any N+1 queries in the process. To achieve that, I had to be careful when preloading using a _simple_ `includes`, as it can lead to a very high memory consumption. Instead, usually when a single figure is all there is needed, such as calculating the `count on hand` for every product, I resorted to other Ruby tricks to only get those values, avoiding the instantiation of Active Record objects. Another challenge was indeed modelling the taxons, so that they can be represented with a tree like navigation on the frontend, and allow the user to cross select from multiple taxonomy trees, for example:  `Music -> CDs`, and `Genre -> Rock`, and maybe some other taxonomy tree, such as `Promotions -> 20% off`.

#### What are you looking forward to most at SolidusConf?

I'm really looking forward to meeting all those people with whom I have exchanged so many messages through Github and Slack, but never actually spoken to. I really want to see what they are about, what their day to day problems are, and what their development aspirations are. (Whether it be containers, or Rails 5, or some SaaS product.)

#### Sounds good. As a London local, what should the people from out of town/country consider doing when not at the conference?

The weather in May is usually the best it can get here, so if the Rain Gods are merciful, visiting some of the Royal Parks (St. James’s Park, Regent's and Hyde Park) is highly recommended, as the flowers will certainly be blooming at the time, and the parks themselves are very beautiful. Craft beer pubs are naturally there as well, and I'd recommend trying the craft ciders, as they really are nothing like store bought.

#### Thanks for that insight. I think that's all the questions I had. Is there anything that you wanted to mention before we wrap up?

No, thank you for the time!

#### Perfect. Thank-you!

**It's not too late to [buy tickets](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429)**

SolidusConf speaker Martin Tomov: My name is Martin Tomov, I am a full stack developer working primarily on ecommerce projects for Boomer Digital. I am based in London, UK.

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Martin Tomov


![solidusconf speaker clarke brunsdon](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/ee61782a3e3e883d56ea3f2c90ab3c9fd18c9a23-840x567.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don't know you

I'm one of the Solidus core team members and one of the founders of Stembolt. I've been a developer for the last 17 years, though nowadays I write more emails than code.

#### What do you use Solidus for?

At Stembolt we use Solidus on all of our projects. We split it up between new "greenfield" stores, stores we're upgrading from Spree, and stores that we're migrating from other platforms. I think we are involved in about a dozen Solidus stores at any given time.

#### What is your talk going to be about?

I'll be giving a Solidus "state of the union." I'll talk a bit about what has been accomplished since the last Solidus conference, where we are, and where we're going.

#### What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf?

The hack days. There is nothing like sitting in a room full of developers that have all the same problems, questions, and concerns as you and ask them about how they've approached a problem and what kinds of solutions came up. The hack days are a fantastic, unstructured time to get to know new people, or work with people that you rarely get to see "IRL."

#### Do you have any other plans for London?

I'll be making the "nerd pilgrimage" with some of my co-workers to the [Doctor Who museum](https://www.visitcardiff.com/seedo/doctor-who-experience/) in Cardiff. I've already called shotgun on getting to make the "it's bigger on the inside!?" comment when entering the tardis.

#### Thanks for your time!

Looking forward to it!

**[Getting around London](https://conf2017.solidus.io/getting_around_london/)**

SolidusConf speaker Clarke Brunsdon: I'm one of the Solidus core team members and one of the founders of Stembolt. I've been a developer for the last 17 years, though nowadays I write more emails than code.

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Clarke Brunsdon

![solidusconf speaker denis sellu](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/031ea8bc460d635bf48d0cb6f6f0a479cd87a34c-350x236.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a short introduction to yourself for those who don’t know you

My name is Denis Sellu, I live in Bristol and work for CookiesHQ. 

#### What sort of work do you do there?

I work there as a full stack dev. My work varies from day to day; from  supporting clients to building new apps and technologies. 

Cookies HQ is an agency where we have plenty of clients, which means different problems to solve everyday.

#### How long have you been working with ecommerce?

On and off for 5 years before my time at CookiesHQ, and since then for about 1.5 years. 

#### Has most of that been in Spree/Solidus or have you done other things?

It's been a mix between mostly custom solutions like Magento - when I worked with PHP, and a touch of WoocCommerce. 

#### Can you give us a quick brief on what your SolidusConf talk is going to be about?

I decided to talk about an element of ecommerce that is sometimes overlooked, but just as important. I'll be talking about how important Analytics is and the simple things you can do to start implementing it in your application. So basically how to harness analytics to better understand your customers and lead to better conversions.

#### That sounds like something we're all looking for. Do you have any good stories about a case where you've used this recently to make some good decisions?

Most of the work we do is for clients and they choose the business directions. We provide the right tools and data for them to be able to do so. I can't go into specifics as we are still working with the clients and they have ongoing campaigns, however the work that inspired the talk would be a great example. They had built an MVP app and was successfully funded to develop a more feature rich version and we were tasked with the job of doing so. We used [Segment](https://segment.com/) and tracked and sent events to a few analytics/marketing tools like Intercom and Google Analytics. Using all the data they are able to see every inch of their customer behaviour. Now the features we are planning on adding are centered around the data that was received from analytics.

#### What else are you looking forward to at SolidusConf?

I'm looking forward to the hack days. It will allow me to learn more about Solidus.

#### What should the non-Brit's coming to the UK for the first time consider doing while in London?

I actually grew up in outer London. I always find that a great way to enjoy a place is finding a good pub to mingle with the locals. If they have a day to spend I would suggest taking a tour of the very beautiful city - lots to see. 

#### I’m sure I'm not the only one who's curious about your picture on the conference website. Any story there?

Haha, it was the company day out and it's just one of the many embarrassing poses I made that day.

#### Sounds like your team has a good time. Is there anything else you wanted to mention before we wrap up?

It was, we had fun! Nothing more except I'm very excited about the talk.

#### Glad to hear it. Thanks for your time.

**[More things to do in London](https://conf2017.solidus.io/things_to_do/)**

SolidusConf 2017 speaker denis sellu: My name is Denis Sellu, I live in Bristol and work for CookiesHQ. 

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Denis Sellu

![solidusconf speaker brian buchalter](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/5ae047d92154d806b8f2600510bd12e2b6730656-460x460.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don't know you

My name is Brian Buchalter and I work at Tommy John, a menswear brand that specializes in underwear. I've been working remotely on Rails-based projects for 11 years and on Spree stores for 4 years. I live on a small island in the Caribbean with my family of four. For fun, I've recently started sailing and continue to prepare for my future career in a Beatles cover band.

#### What is your role at Tommy John, what does an average day look like for you?

I've always been a generalist and enjoyed a variety of responsibilities, so I play a lot of different roles at Tommy John. I am responsible for our store's AWS infrastructure, I triage issues for our customer support team, I write user stories and acceptance criteria for our dev team's backlog, I do acceptance testing, I'm the on-call engineer for Pager Duty, I provide rough costing estimates for our roadmap... all sorts of things. I also review all the PRs and keep an eye on what's going on in the Solidus repo too. Ultimately my goal is to keep my team engaged with meaningful, high-quality work at a sustainable pace so Tommy John can continue to grow as a business. I don't always succeed, but I know what I'm working towards! If this sounds good to anyone reading, ping @brianb in the Solidus Slack to see if you'd be a good fit for the Tommy John team.

#### How long have you been working with Spree and Solidus?

When I joined Tommy John, we were a Spree v1.2 store. Things were pretty rough in Spree-land at that time; especially in the upgrades. We slogged our way through to Spree v2.1 and started forking Spree and many Spree gems pretty heavily from there. After the announcement that Spree was dead and Solidus was to rise from the ashes, we made our way over to Solidus v1.2 and haven't looked back. Solidus is the core of our ecommerce system: order processing, product management, promotions, store credits, shipping, and much more rely on Solidus. We've got our own front-end, checkout, and plenty of enhancements to core and the admin too, but it's all built on the back of Solidus. Thank you to Solidus core team and the many contributors out there!

#### What is your talk going to be about?

My talk is going to be about how to collect application logs in a production environment and make the data searchable through an easy-to-use web-based interface. This talk came out of my own desire to be able to trace a customer's journey in our store so I could reproduce complex bugs. The heart of this logging system is Elasticsearch, which is kind of a monster. I'm going to assume very limited knowledge of Elasticsearch and introduce a lot of basic concepts. If you've never used Elasticsearch before you'll be armed with enough info to bring a great new tool back to your team like a pro. If you've got some Elasticsearch experience, you still probably learn something. I'm covering many topics at varying levels of details: shards, cluster health, index templates, filebeat, user permissions, the Elasticsearch API and Elastic's cloud-based hosted-solution, ElasticCloud.

#### What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf?

Seeing the Solidus community in person and in a social setting is always energizing. Folks are genuinely friendly and make geeking-out fun. I'm also looking forward to Clarke’s ‘State of Solidus’ talk. There has been so much progress in the platform since last year's conference. I'm looking forward to seeing all of that hard work acknowledged and celebrated. There are still many challenges ahead, but strengthening our community is what will see us through those challenges.

#### Do you have any other plans for London?

There are all sorts of Beatles related things to see and do in London but SolidusConf is coincidentally timed near a special event: June 1st, 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’. I'm hoping to find a way to indulge this interest to the max. Ping @brianb in the Solidus Slack if you'd like to join me in my adventures.

#### Sounds great! Thanks for your time!

**[Tickets available](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429)**

My name is Brian Buchalter and I work at Tommy John, a menswear brand that specialises in underwear. I've been working remotely on Rails-based projects for 11 years and on Spree stores for 4 years. I live on a small island in the Caribbean with my family of four.

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Brian Buchalter

[2.2.0 on github](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/releases/tag/v2.2.0)
[2.2.0 on rubygems](https://rubygems.org/gems/solidus/versions/2.2.0)

Announcing Solidus 2.2.0!

This release includes better support for non-credit-card payment sources, better promotion creation, and many other great changes. 

Later this month is [SolidusConf 2017 in London](https://conf2017.solidus.io/). Hope to see you there!

### Major Changes

- Spree::Wallet and Non credit card payment sources [#1707](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1707) [#1773](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1773) [#1765](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1765) ([chrisradford](https://github.com/chrisradford), [jordan-brough](https://github.com/jordan-brough), [peterberkenbosch](https://github.com/peterberkenbosch))

  This adds support for payment sources other than `CreditCard`, which can be used to better represent other (potentially reusable) payment sources, like PayPal or Bank accounts. Previously sources like this had to implement all behaviour themselves, or try their best to quack like a credit card.

  This adds a `PaymentSource` base class, which `CreditCard` now inherits, and a `Wallet` service class to help manage users' payment sources. A `WalletPaymentSource` join table is used to tie reusable payment sources to users, replacing the existing behaviour of allowing all credit cards with a stored payment profile.

- Add promotion code batch [#1524](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1524) ([vladstoick](https://github.com/vladstoick))

  Prior to Solidus 1.0, each promotion had at most one code. Though we added the functionality to have many codes on one promotion, the UI for creation and management was lacking.

  In Solidus 2.2 we've added `PromotionCodeBatch`, a model to group a batch of promotion codes. This allows additional promotion codes to be generated after the Promotion's initial creation. Promotion codes are also now generated in a background job.

- Admin UI Changes

  The admin UI was once again a focus in this release. We've made many incremental changes we think all users will appreciate. This includes an upgrade to Bootstrap 4.0.0.alpha6, changes to table styles, and a better select style.

  See the "Admin UI" section below for a full list of changes.


### Core
- `Spree::Order#available_payment_methods` returns an `ActiveRecord::Relation` instead of an array [#1802](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1802) ([luukveenis](https://github.com/luukveenis))
- Product slugs no longer have a minimum length requirement [#1616](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1616) ([fschwahn](https://github.com/fschwahn))
- `Spree::Money` now includes `Comparable` and the `<=>` operator for comparisons. [#1682](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1682) ([graygilmore ](https://github.com/graygilmore))
- Allow destruction of shipments in the "ready" state. [#1784](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1784) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))
- Do not consider pending inventory units cancelable [#1800](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1800) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))
- Rewrite spree.js in plain JS [#1754](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1754) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Make sensitive params filtering less eager [#1755](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1755) ([kennyadsl](https://github.com/kennyadsl))
- Use manifest.js to support Sprockets 4 [#1759](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1759) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Update paperclip dependency [#1749](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1749) ([brchristian](https://github.com/brchristian))
- Update kaminari dependency to 1.x [#1734](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1734) ([jrochkind](https://github.com/jrochkind))
- Allow twitter_cldr 4.x [#1732](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1732) ([jrochkind](https://github.com/jrochkind))
- Added LineItem name to unavailable flash [#1697](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1697) ([ericsaupe](https://github.com/ericsaupe))
- Don't treat "unreturned exchanges" specially in checkout state machine flow [#1690](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1690) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- `set_shipments_cost` is now part of OrderUpdater [#1689](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1689) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Methods other than `update!`, `update_shipment_state`, `update_payment_state` are now private on OrderUpdater [#1689](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1689) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Use can_complete? instead of confirm? to check if Order can be completed [#1833](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1833) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))

### Bug Fixes

- `AvailabilityValidator` correctly detects out of stock with multiple shipments from the same stock location. [#1693](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1693) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix missing close paren in variantAutocomplete [#1832](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1832) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Set belongs_to_required_by_default = false [#1807](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1807) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix loading transfer shipments [#1781](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1781) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))
- Fix complete order factory to have non-pending inventory units [#1787](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1787) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))
- Fix to cart URL for stores not mounted at root [#1775](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1775) ([funwhilelost](https://github.com/funwhilelost))
- Remove duplicated require in shipment factory [#1769](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1769) ([upinetree](https://github.com/upinetree))
- Fix an issue where updating a user in the admin without specifying roles in would clear the existing roles.[#1747](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1747) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Fix the 'Send Mailer' checkbox selection [#1716](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1716) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Rearrange AR relation declarations in order.rb in preparation for Rails 5.1 [#1740](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1740) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix issue where OrderInventory creates superfluous InventoryUnits [#1751](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1751) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix check for `order.guest_token` presence [#1705](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1705) ([vfonic](https://github.com/vfonic))
- Fix shipped_order factory [#1772](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1772) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Don't display inactive payment methods on frontend or backend [#1801](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1801) ([luukveenis](https://github.com/luukveenis))
- Don't send email if PromotionCodeBatch email is unset [#1699](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1699) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))

### Frontend
- Use `cart_link_path` instead of `cart_link_url` [#1757](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1757) ([bofrede](https://github.com/bofrede))
- Replace cache_key_for_taxons with cache [#1688](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1688) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Update code styles for /cart [#1727](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1727) ([vfonic](https://github.com/vfonic))
- Add a frontend views override generator [#1681](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1681) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))

### Admin

- Create JS namespaces in centralized file [#1753](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1753) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Replace select2-rails with vendored select2 [#1774](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1774) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Add JS `Spree.formatMoney` helper for currency formatting [#1745](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1745) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Rewrite zones.js.coffee using Backbone.js [#1766](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1766) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Add JS `Spree.t` and `Spree.human_attribute_name` for i18n [#1730](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1730) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Allow editing multiple Stores [#1282](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1282) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Add promotion codes index view [#1545](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1545) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Replace deprecated bourbon mixins with unprefixed CSS [#1706](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1706) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Ensure helper is specified in CustomerReturnsController [#1771](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1771) ([eric1234](https://github.com/eric1234))
- Ensure helper is specified in VariantsController [#1714](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1714) ([eric1234](https://github.com/eric1234))
- Remove nonexistant form hint from view [#1698](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1698) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Promotion search now finds orders which used the specific promotion code, of any code on the promotion. [#1662](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1662) ([stewart](https://github.com/stewart))

### Admin UI

- Upgrade to Bootstrap 4.0.0.alpha6 [#1816](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1816) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- New admin table layout [#1786](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1786) [#1828](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1828) [#1829](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1829) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Add number with currency selector widget [#1793](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1793) [#1813](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1813) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Replace select2 styling [#1797](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1797) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Change admin logo height to match breadcrumbs height [#1822](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1822) ([mtomov](https://github.com/mtomov))
- Fit admin logo to available space [#1758](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1758) ([brchristian](https://github.com/brchristian))
- Make form/button styles match bootstrap's [#1809](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1809) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix datepicker style [#1827](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1827) ([kennyadsl](https://github.com/kennyadsl))
- Use bootstrap input-group for date range [#1817](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1817) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Improve page titles in admin [#1795](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1795) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Use an icon as missing image placeholder [#1760](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1760) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn)) [#1764](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1764) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Convert admin orders table into full width layout [#1782](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1782) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Raise `font-size` [#1777](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1777) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Improve promotions creation form [#1509](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1509) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove stock location configuration from admin "cart" page [#1709](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1709) [#1710](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1710) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Update admin cart page dynamically [#1715](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1715) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix duplicated Shipments breadcrumb [#1717](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1717) [#1746](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1746) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Don’t set default text highlight colors [#1738](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1738) ([brchristian](https://github.com/brchristian))
- Convert customer details page to backbone [#1762](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1762) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove inline edit from payments dipslay amount [#1815](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1815) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Fix styling of tiered promotions delete icon [#1810](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1810) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove `webkit-tap-highlight-color` [#1792](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1792) ([brchristian](https://github.com/brchristian))
- Promotion and Shipping calculators can be created or changed without reloading the page. [#1618](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1618) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix sidebar vertical alignment [#1845](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1845) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Fix centering of pagination under bootstrap 4.0.0.alpha6 [#1844](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1844) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Fix date range filter under firefox [#1846](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1846) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))


### Removals

- Extract expedited exchanges to an extension [#1691](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1691) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove spree_store_credits column [#1741](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1741) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove StockMovements#new action and view [#1767](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1767) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove unused variant_management.js.coffee [#1768](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1768) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Remove unused payment Javascript [#1735](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1735) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Moved `spree/admin/shared/_translations` partial to `spree/admin/shared/_js_locale_data`.


### Deprecations

- Deprecate `Order#has_step?` in favour of `has_checkout_step?` [#1667](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1667) ([mamhoff](https://github.com/mamhoff))
- Deprecate `Order#set_shipments_cost`, which is now done in `Order#update!` [#1689](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1689) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Deprecate `user.default_credit_card`, `user.payment_sources` for `user.wallet.default_wallet_payment_source` and `user.wallet.wallet_payment_sources`
- Deprecate `CreditCard#default` in favour of `user.wallet.default_wallet_payment_source`
- Deprecate `cache_key_for_taxons` helper favour of `cache [I18n.locale, @taxons]`
- Deprecate admin sass variables in favour of bootstrap alternatives [#1780](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1780) ([tvdeyen](https://github.com/tvdeyen))
- Deprecate Address#empty? [#1686](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1686) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Deprecate `fill_in_quantity` capybara helper [#1710](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1710) ([jhawthorn](https://github.com/jhawthorn))
- Deprecate `wait_for_ajax` capybara helper [#1668](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/1668) ([cbrunsdon](https://github.com/cbrunsdon))

Announcing Solidus 2.2.0! This release includes better support for non-credit-card payment sources, better promotion creation, and many other great changes. 

Solidus 2.2.0

![Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Alex Stoica](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/a9bfeeabb9a165ef2df48ba32efaa6bfba33b03c-350x236.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don’t know you

I’m Alex, a backend developer at Lost My Name. I’ve worked here for just under three years now, while studying towards my Computer Science degree from King’s College London.

#### How long have you been working with Spree and Solidus?

I had my introduction to Spree a few days after I started, so that would make it close to three years.

#### What sort of work do you do on a daily basis?

Over time I have done a bit of everything from fixing Spree or Solidus bugs, to launching new products, or developing external API’s. However, most of the time I work deep into the depths of Solidus - trying to work out why our system is not behaving correctly, or how we can tap into new optimizations made available in the latest patches.

#### I imagine you have some fun and perhaps terrible stories there. Could you give us an overview of what you're going to be speaking about at SolidusConf this year?

I’ll speak about some of the issues we have had in the past about global shipping and how we tackled them. Shipping from 10 different places with loads of ways to ship things is not something that just works. To make things even more complicated, we also have customizable products. So I’ll dip into that a bit and try to show how we managed that complexity and how we now have a streamlined process for launching new products.

#### That should be interesting. I'm looking forward to it. What else are you looking forward to at the conference?

I quite liked the hack days last year, and also being around people that are using Solidus or Spree and understanding their love/hate relationship was great!

#### Glad to hear it. Is there anything that you would recommend for the non-London locals who are coming to town? What is something they should consider doing when not at the conference?

Not being a London local myself for too long I’d definitely recommend walking in some of the parks, if the weather is permitting! Also, taking the river boat can be quite nice.

#### That sounds fun. Is there anything else that you wanted to mention before we wrap up?

I'm really looking forward to the conference and seeing what everyone else is doing with Solidus! Glad to have you guys in London.

#### Excellent. Thanks for your time today.

**Learn more about the conference at [https://conf2017.solidus.io](https://conf2017.solidus.io)**

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Alex Stoica: I’m Alex, a backend developer at Lost My Name. I’ve worked here for just under three years now, while studying towards my Computer Science degree from King’s College London.

SolidusConf 2017 Speaker Alex Stoica

![A picture from the Hackdays in 2016](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/5fc1ef576e0121b0ce3bf650318fe6143bc92c57-1200x800.jpg?fit=clip)

On May 22nd and May 23rd, we're inviting you to the Solidus Conference Center for two days of hacking on the Solidus platform or your own code.

The [Solidus Core Team](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/graphs/contributors) will be present in full, ready to review your Pull Requests or help you with your issue or extension.

Learning from last year's pre-conference Hack Days, we've set ourselves three goals for this year:

- More and better documentation
- Less open Github Issues
- More contributors (yes, that may be you!)

## The *SolidusConf Hack Day* Issue Label

We have gone through the list of issues on Github and selected those that we think are **actionable** and solvable by one developer in two days under the `SolidusConf Hack Day` [issue label](https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22SolidusConf+Hack+Day%22).

If you want to get your feet wet with contributing to [Solidus Core](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus) or any of the [Solidus extensions](http://extensions.solidus.io/), you can either look at the [global issue list](https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22SolidusConf+Hack+Day%22) or navigate on Github to any of the repositories in question and filter by the `SolidusConf Hack Day` label. Pick an issue and start working on it!

Of course, if you would like to tackle the issue before May 22nd, these issues can be solved before that as well. Chances are we'll find more actionable items!

If you're an extension maintainer on [Solidus Contrib](https://github.com/solidusio-contrib), you can help us by tagging more issues that are **actionable and solvable in two days**. Adding the label will add visibility to your extension and give Hack Day participants more stuff to choose from.

## Documentation

Code is important, but good documentation is what grows a community. Look for issues tagged with the `documentation` label to see how you can help here.

### Inline YARD docs

We'd love more [YARD docs](https://yardoc.org/) on our methods! Here's a [cheat sheet](https://gist.github.com/chetan/1827484) for the uninitated.

### Porting Developer Guides

Much of the Spree developer guides apply to Solidus as well. Help developers starting out with Solidus by figuring out where they don't and [contribute ported guides](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/issues/1862) to the core repository's [`guides` directory](https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/tree/master/guides).

### Improve User Guides

[Ash Kamel](https://github.com/ajkamel) has ported the Spree User guides (the docs for Store Admins) to Solidus under the [Solidus Guides repository](https://ashkamel.com/solidus-guides/). We'd like to add them to the core web site, but they need to be revised and checked for correctness and neat screenshots.

## Code of Conduct

Like the rest of the conference, the Hack Days have a [Code of Conduct](https://conf2017.solidus.io/code_of_conduct/).


**To hack on Solidus together with the core team, [get your tickets](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429) today!**

On May 22nd and May 23rd, we're inviting you to the Solidus Conference Center for two days of hacking on the Solidus platform or your own code.

SolidusConf 2017 Hack Days

![Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Ryan Moriarty](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/438a7ec33aab0762a14bbb1f41a344d52d0f4e3b-350x236.jpg?fit=clip)

#### First off could you give a quick introduction to yourself?

Sure, I'm Ryan Moriarty, Head of Business Intelligence at Lost My Name. I joined about 10 months ago to set up the BI team here. My background is exclusively in analytics roles; most recently digital, across a range of industries.

#### What does your average work day look like?

Manic! We organize the week so that the operational leadership meetings are at the start of the week. These meetings set the business priorities for the week, from which I can plan my team's time.

Where we get busy in BI is that we support all of the teams here now.  So, as much as we try to plan the workload, there's always something new that another team has started that needs our input. It keeps us busy, but also keeps the work varied which we like.

#### Do you have any particular direct involvement with your implementation of Solidus?

Not directly, no. We're "customers" of the data it provides, which, in turn, we add additional "business value" to it and make it available for everyone that needs it.

#### That makes sense. Could you give us an overview of what your SolidusConf talk is going to be about?

It's about how we're using data at Lost My Name to make better decisions. That's a fairly common topic for an ecommerce business, but I think what makes us interesting is the way we use data to inform creative processes, marketing, and website testing, etc. For example, we use data to inform the future product roadmap, and what improvements we can make to our existing products in order for them to sell more.

#### What else are you looking forward to at the conference?

Seeing how other people are using Solidus to power their ecommerce platforms. Particularly, what data capturing and reporting capabilities are being used.

#### For any foreigners coming to the UK, what activities would you recommend for someone who has never been before?

Great question! If the weather is nice, I would definitely recommend a tour along the Thames as a quick way of seeing lots of the sites!  Followed by a lunch from one of the excellent street food stalls at Borough Market (London Bridge station).

#### Thanks for answering my questions! Did you have anything else that you wanted to mention before we wrap up?

Thanks Gregor, no all good for me! Looking forward to meeting you all.

#### Thanks for your time

**[Tickets available](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429)**

I'm Ryan Moriarty, Head of Business Intelligence at Lost My Name. I joined about 10 months ago to set up the BI team here. My background is exclusively in analytics roles; most recently digital, across a range of industries.

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Ryan Moriarty

![Solidusconf Speaker Eric Saupe](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/c7a760233cf0d62e17f91b41df7172576a10ad63-350x236.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction of yourself for those who don’t know you

Sure, I'm Eric Saupe. I'm a developer at Deseret Book based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Computer Science. I've been a developer for over seven years and have been using Rails for three.

#### What do you use Solidus for?

We use Solidus for our ecommerce site [DeseretBook.com](https://deseretbook.com/). We sell over 20,000 variants. We also have our own warehouse that manages shipping, stock, and availability for our site as well as our 43 physical stores.

Some of those variants are digital products including ebooks and audiobooks which are served through our native apps on iOS and Android called [Deseret Bookshelf](https://deseretbook.com/bookshelf).

Our Solidus site is the engine for all online physical and digital sales.

#### That’s great to hear! What is your role at Deseret Book? What does an average day look like for you?

I'm the lead developer for Deseret Book so an average day for me involves creating new features and fixing outstanding bugs.

A couple of years ago we switched from a custom ecommerce Rails app to using Spree. During that time we tried to maintain a lot of the legacy features at the expense of customizing Spree. Due to all of those customizations we had forked Spree and were no longer getting the benefits of open source.

We rewrote the app again using Solidus instead of using the upgrade path, due to using our fork of Spree. Everyday when we write new features or bugs we are trying hard to "go vanilla" with Solidus to benefit from the open source community.

Since moving to Solidus we have removed tens of thousands of custom lines of code that was overriding core functions, and now our site runs more reliably and new updates are pushed much faster.

#### Sounds like quite the process but with a positive outcome. What is your talk going to be about at SolidusConf?

My talk is called "Keep your store fresh with an API-based CMS". Basically, our advertising team is constantly updating the homepage and other marketing sections on the site. In the past this would require developer time and a deploy to have the marketing changes take effect. We looked into giving them a better solution and found API-based CMS.

By using an API-based CMS, like [Contentful](https://www.contentful.com/) or [Prismic.io](https://prismic.io), we gave an editing tool to marketers to update sections of the site without requiring a deploy. They can also schedule updates to happen at specific times for daily or event sales.

We have converted our entire homepage and added sections of taxons and product pages to take advantage of marketers controlling the content that is shown.

#### That will certainly be a valuable topic for the the attendees. What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf?

I'm excited to see everyone that I see in Slack and on GitHub. It was really great last year seeing everyone and getting opinions. I really learned a lot.

#### Do you have any other plans for London?

It's my first time so I'm excited to do some sightseeing! A few people from our team are coming and it should be a good time hanging out with everyone around town.

#### Glad to hear it! Thanks for your time today Eric.

**Learn more about the conference at [https://conf2017.solidus.io/](https://conf2017.solidus.io/)**

Solidusconf Speaker Eric Saupe: I'm Eric Saupe and I'm a developer at Deseret Book based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Computer Science. I've been a developer for over seven years and have been using Rails for three.

SolidusConf 2017 Speaker Eric Saupe

![SolidusConf Speaker Tal Oron](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/2c9628d688d22341a668c59ea25138e5dfd78b12-876x1311.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don't know you

Hey, I'm Tal Oron, one of the co-founders of Lost My Name. I'm the techy co-founder, now in charge of overall operations. I'm an ex-product manager, product marketer. I hold a BSc in Computer Science and a Masters in Business. I work about 16 hours a day. Mostly with the TV on.

#### What do you use Solidus for?

When we started Lost My Name we were lacking ecommerce experience. We were using Stripe’s out-of-the-box model for transactions and our database was simple enough (customers, products, orders). While this was working for a while, we quickly realized that we were talking for way too long on the basic concepts of ecommerce, and we were just reinventing the wheel. We tapped into Solidus in order to get things out of the box. We've been running our ecommerce back-end ever since.

#### What is your talk going to be about?

I'll be talking about our entrepreneurial story rather than go deep into technology decisions. There would be way more capable people from Lost My Name, shedding light on those.

#### What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf?

I'd like to see the community face to face, the people who are working day in day out on Solidus. I'd like to discuss how we make sure we develop the platform to be extensible. I'd like to see more people working together on mutual problems in ecommerce and I'd like to find someone to take on documenting Solidus. Ohh, and beer.

#### Do you have any other plans for London?

I live in London. Lost My Name is located here, so my plan for London is to make sure everyone feels welcome. If anyone would like to visit our product studio, I'd love for them to come by.

#### Can you give us a bit of background on Lost My Name for anyone not familiar with the company?

Lost My Name is on a journey to empower grown-ups to make magical, memorable connections with a child. In practice, we're a full-stack publishing start-up which conceive, create, produce, market, manufacture and supply never-possible-before books for children. We started 3.5 years ago and we've sold 2.7 million books in that time.

#### Why did you decide to help co-host SolidusConf this year?

As I said before, we tapped into the crowd knowledge using Spree and then Solidus, when we didn't have that knowledge ourselves. We're looking to support the community just like it supported us. We're currently employing one of the core members of Solidus (Jordan Brough) full time, and co-hosting signifies our commitment to the project.

#### Great thank-you for taking the time to speak with us!

**To meet Tal at the conference, [get your tickets](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429) today!**

Hey, I'm Tal Oron, one of the co-founders of Lost My Name. I'm the techy co-founder, now in charge of overall operations. I'm an ex-product manager, product marketer. I hold a BSc in Computer Science and a Masters in Business. I work about 16 hours a day. Mostly with the TV on.

SolidusConf 2017 Speaker Tal Oron

![SolidusConf Speaker John Hawthorn](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/29d420186aa737f07e091960401c441588152cd4-400x400.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don't know you

I'm John Hawthorn. I work at Stembolt in Victoria, the only warm place in
Canada. I've been using Ruby and Rails since 2009.

#### What do you use Solidus for?

I've previously worked on a few Spree stores. Since its creation, I've had the
pleasure of working on Solidus full time as an open source project.

#### What is your talk going to be about?

Every store using Solidus needs some level of customization. Though it's easy to
hack in some changes, it's harder to make customizations which will work across
Solidus versions and can be shared across stores as an extension.

I'll be discussing some techniques and strategies we've used to try and make
extensions better, easier and more compatible.

#### What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf?

It's always great to put faces to names from Slack and Github, as well as see
some familiar faces.

#### Do you have any other plans for London?

This is my first time in the UK. I like to experience new places by their foods,
so I'm hoping to have a full English breakfast, a pint of bitter, and copious
amounts of tea.

#### Great thank you very much!

**[Get your SolidusConf tickets](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solidusconf-2017-tickets-33284698429).**

I'm John Hawthorn. I work at Stembolt in Victoria, the only warm place in
Canada. I've been using Ruby and Rails since 2009.

SolidusConf 2017 Speaker John Hawthorn

![SolidusConf Speaker Jose Pio](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/9g5nd6b4/production/fc42dafdaa8a1a033f6c891665b766f7ecb3d46a-220x300.jpg?fit=clip&q=60)

#### Please give us a quick introduction to yourself for those who don’t know you

My name is Jose Pio. I’ve studied Electronic Engineering and during my career I became more interested in the web world. So now I continue in this area. I'm a Senior/Full Stack Dev at Bitspire. I've been working with Ruby for 6 years now and before I was working mostly with PHP.

#### How long have you been working with Spree and Solidus?

I started working with websites in 2001 at Actionscript, Indeed and HTML 1. The last year and a half I’ve been assisting with the Payone gem integration and now I work full time on two stores: [Best Made Co](https://www.duluthtrading.com/best-made/shop-all/) and [Othr](https://www.othr.com). BestmadeCo is still Spree but Othr was migrated to Solidus. I've also been working on developing the Gem for integrating Klarna Payments to Solidus 1.x.

#### You mentioned that you're a full stack dev? What sort of things do you do on an average day at work?

So far I normally go from solving issues in servers and revising Chef deployment scripts, to fixing silly bugs in CSS. Fixing the bugs is not my favourite part but sometimes you have to do it. This last year I spent most of the time making Spree/Solidus modifications for clients.

#### Can you give us an overview of what you're going to be speaking about at SolidusConf?

After working with Klarna Payment Gateway and Payone, I realized that a fair introduction to payments in Solidus would improve the process of this integration. I had to read the models back and forth and use a railroady gem to analyze the structure of the code, so I thought I would give a fair introduction to the topic for people who want to modify or create new integrations.

#### It's a challenging topic, but something lots of us have to deal with. What were some of those most challenging things you ran into along the way?

Well first, why Active Merchant? We could implement both of our integrations without it, but still we respect the API. Then I understood that it is that respect that brings coherence to the whole payment design. Also it was challenging to see at first sight this magic of "I press purchase" and then my credit card or in our last case "Klarna API" receives the request. So we needed to divide the design into a Gateway and SDK and join them to work into Solidus. It was very challenging testing the suits, the error bubbling and responses.

#### I’m not sure about everyone else, but I know exactly what you're speaking of

Yup, I also know that you know because I had to read a lot of code from you including the Reimbursement in StoreCredits that in Spree is a Gem and in Solidus in part of the core.

#### We're a bit spoiled these days with payment gateways that offer reasonable support, documentation, and even a gem to help work with them

In the project I'm working on now I had to use your code again.

#### I used to be impressed by someone who gave me documentation in a PDF that was in the same language I spoke...

Well that is the intention for Klarna, they want their Gem to be fully compatible.

#### What are you looking forward to most at SolidusConf?

I'm very exited that I can speak at the conference. My last conference was many years ago in Spain. I'm really glad that I can collaborate and spread knowledge to people, I haven't been able to make any coherent big commit to the project but I can probably give my two cents on explaining this payment labyrinth.

#### It should be interesting and I'm looking forward to it! Outside of the conference itself is there anything you're planning to do in London?

Besides this contributing motivation I think getting to know most of the people I'm reading code from is an awesome opportunity. I have to be back in Berlin on Friday afternoon so so far, I've only planned from the conference. I also have a 5 month old baby I need to come back to and keep helping with. You can call it a "never ending pull request”.

#### I’m sure that keeps you very busy!

Yes it also keeps me smiling a lot.

#### Is there anything else you wanted to mention before we wrap up?

I'm very glad for the opportunity and thanks for letting me collaborate.

#### You're welcome. Thanks for taking the time to chat with me today!

**Learn more about the conference at [https://conf2017.solidus.io/](https://conf2017.solidus.io/)**

My name is Jose Pio. I’ve studied Electronic Engineering and during my career I became more interested in the web world. So now I continue in this area. I'm a Senior/Full Stack Dev at Bitspire. I've been working with Ruby for 6 years now and before I was working mostly with PHP.

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