Active Admin Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Use Rails

  Rails is absolutely fantastic for projects below 10,000 lines with 1 or 2 contributors, especially if you want a classic forms-based UI. And you can get a huge amount done under those constraints in Rails. But as of couple of years ago, Rails came with a number of drawbacks: 1. There was no really viable system of static typing that a significant number of people were enthusiastic about. See... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?

  Can you clarify what's the "tremendous value" you're getting out of the Django admin? At Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ we are using Active Admin https://activeadmin.info/ for Ruby on Rails, which seems quite similar to the Django admin. In my experience, it's mostly useful as a fairly basic read-only view of what's in the database. In Rails, it's so easy to whip together a custom view that we tend to do... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• View code coverage (active_admin and orther .arb file)

  For those who know [https://activeadmin.info/](https://activeadmin.info/) it uses a file format [https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre](https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Show HN: Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster – Avo

  Very neat! My first thought was that this was a competitor to https://bullettrain.co/. Looking into it a bit more, it seems more aimed at building admin panels than whole apps. I guess it competes against tools like https://activeadmin.info/? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails

  We briefly considered migrating to a full-grown Rails admin interface, such as ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin, Administrate or Avo. We especially liked Avo which is built on a very modern stack similar to ours (Tailwind + Hotwire + ViewComponents). In the end, we didn’t go this route as we found some of the options a bit too restrictive (even though Avo is very flexible) and we did not feel like trying to amend it to our... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app

  I second Rails. It's incredibly polished and has really good gems to speed up dev. ActiveAdmin is a great gem if you need to quickly make an admin dashboard. It was useful when I had a small consultancy. https://activeadmin.info/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Admin Framework for Rails

  See an example: https://activeadmin.info It provides a fast way to create back office functionality. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Admin Framework for Rails

  Until recently, my default Admin was ActiveAdmin library. But I found it a bit challenging onboarding new engineers with Inherited Resources gem. Also, a lot is changed on the frontend side with webpack, and now esbuild. I would like to use TailwindCSS to simplify the development. IMHO, ActiveAdmin legacy makes it way more complicated for customization to a new project. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Stop Building a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End

  I can't speak much about Rails, as I've only played with it. But I've used a lot Django in the past. Regarding the Django admin (in rails you have ActiveAdmin[1]) think if it just as a glorified database explorer. It is an internal tool for developers, product managers and maybe for your support team. It is in no way thought to be used by end users. Every attempt I've seen to use it as such was a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Breaking Up Rails Monoliths and Contact-Driven API Development with Dmitry Pashkevich

  And then we wrote some tooling around that to essentially enable all the...Rails engines aren't really built for this kind of marginalization. Usually, Rails engines are for people to write what you can consider a Rails plugin. For example, Active Admin is implemented as a Rails engine and a number of other open-source projects out there where there's a whole pluggable piece, a mini-application that including your... - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• Admin panel for Go back end?

  It seems to be predominantly a Ruby/Rails thing. There are myriads of those. Like https://activeadmin.info/ or https://avohq.io/ etc. Source: over 3 years ago