Hi All. i have a rails application

myCatalogueService

which stores all my products catalogue .(MYSQL) and exposes API to do cruds on top of this database. Now we have an urgent requirement to create a globalised store which will be working on top of this rails service Admin of each customer can log into this store and update the catalogue. When they do this, the data ends up getting updated via calling the api exposed by

myCatalogueService

. So the new globalised store needs to integrate with my legacy rails application . Is Solidus meant for these integrations? As far as i can understand its to create a ecommerce service based on rails . but will it integrate with other legacy rails application for data?

You should be able to integrate. You can do AR callbacks to fill data like it's a third party service if you have an existing admin and want to keep them separate.

@benmorganio thanks for the inputs. so scenario with us is that we have a 2 year old legacy rails application that holds all our data models and already exposes all the apis to do all kind of cruds so i was just thinking if solidus could integrate with my rails application and build the store experience. The problem is we dont have time and resource to buid store from scratch thats why we were exploring third part tools

Yeah, go for solidus. Or use Shopify and have a lot of hooks in place.