Workarea
Commerce platform built on Ruby on Rails, combining storefront, content, search, insights and admin features.
www.workarea.comrepositorydocsplugins
Workarea is a commerce platform built on Ruby on Rails, and it describes itself as combining commerce, content, search and insights in one platform. It is built as a collection of Rails Engines. The developer guide adds the workarea gem to a new Rails app and runs its installer generator, and the data sits in MongoDB, with Elasticsearch and Redis alongside it.
Worth knowing
The application needs a Sidekiq background process running next to the application server, so a host has to run more than one process. The developer hosting article recommends the Workarea Commerce Cloud subscription for hosting, and the README places features such as B2B functionality, order management and running multiple sites in that subscription. The source is public on GitHub, but the README and the LICENSE file name different licenses, and the LICENSE file limits production use to cases that are not a Commerce Service.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on6
- Rendering
- On a server5
- Install with
- Gemfile entry for the workarea gem, then bin/rails generate workarea:install5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links
www.workarea.com/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/workarea-commerce/workarea - 2026-10-26: links, Categories, Runtime, Databases, Admin interface, Multilingual, License
github.com/workarea-commerce/workarea/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-26: Maintainer, Headquarters, License, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/workarea-commerce/workarea/master/LICENSE - 2026-10-26: Minimum runtime, Install with, Rendering
developer.workarea.com/articles/create-a-new-app.html - 2026-10-26: Runs as
developer.workarea.com/articles/infrastructure.html - 2026-10-26: License, Last release
rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/workarea.json - 2026-10-26: First release
rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/workarea.json - 2026-10-26: Current major version
api.github.com/repos/workarea-commerce/workarea/releases - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/workarea-commerce/workarea/contributors?per_page=1