[LRUG] Experiences using RailsAdmin vs ActiveAdmin

[Gerhard Lazu]

I gave ActiveAdmin a proper go last summer, you'll end up battling with it
for anything custom. Devise and CanCan integration was such a pain!

You will have more luck with Twitter's Bootstrap and Jose Valim's
inherited_resources and his other plugins (has_scope, simple_form etc).

Gerhard

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> wrote:

>  For example, to customise User index, our code looks like this
>
>     index do
>       id_column
>       column("Join Date", :created_at)
>       column(:email)
>       column("Name")      { |user| "#{user.first_name} #{user.last_name}" }
>       column("Status")    { |user| status_tag user.status.to_s,
> ACTIVE_ADMIN_STATUS[user.status] }
>       column("Actions") do |user|
>  # ActiveAdmin only pays attention to the return value of the block
>         "
>         #{link_to "Bills", admin_bills_path(:q => {:limit_user_id_eq =>
> user.id} )}
>         #{link_to "Limits", admin_limits_path(:q => {:user_id_eq =>
> user.id} )}
>         #{link_to "Payments", admin_payments_path(:q => {:user_id_eq =>
> user.id})}
>         ".html_safe
>       end
>     end
>
> Maybe we're doing it wrong, but ActiveAdmin seems to encourage you to mix
> up routing, controllers & views.
>
> --
> Tom Blomfield
> +44 7767 484619
>
> gocardless.com
>
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 17:19, Mark Burns wrote:
>
> How does it crap over MVC? Could you elaborate? We are literally just
> looking at using it now.
> I guess it's maybe about as useful as scaffold.
>
> On 20 March 2012 17:13, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> wrote:
>
>  We use ActiveAdmin, and it's sort of ok for basic stuff.
>
> But...
> - it craps all over MVC separation
> - it's not easily extensible
> - it can make your site run very slowly in development (although there are
> fixes for this)
> - it leads to lots of annoying conflicts with stuff like namespaced class
> definitions and STI where the sub-classes aren't present in the database.
>
> I'd really like to see a more "native" rails admin tool.
>
> --
> Tom Blomfield
> +44 7767 484619
>
> gocardless.com
>
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 17:06, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping I can tap into the LRUG hive mind here, with a question others
> might find useful too - apologies if it's come up already in the last
> couple of months.
>
> We're developing a project at work which looks like it'll need some
> kind of admin-dashboard for privileged users to sign in and see
> various in-app metrics, like how many users are in the system, or how
> many performed a specific action, and so on.
>
> Now, my preferred approach here I would be to look at which gems I
> could use as a starting point for something like this - and the two
> best options look to be either ActiveAdmin, and RailsAdmin.
>
> They both give nice looking admin interfaces, without needing to go
> spelunking through loads of code to deliver useful features, but I'd
> love to hear which ones you guys have used in your own projects.
>
> Reading this post here suggests that ActiveAdmin may be a better
> choice in the long run on projects where you can't predict what a
> product owner would want to measure.
>
>
> http://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/20/admin-interfaces-for-rails-apps-railsadmin-vs-activeadmin/
>
> For my part, I've used RailsAdmin on a couple of projects, pretty much
> using it out of the box, and I've been amazed at how much you get for
> free, but pages like this when trying to understand the structure of
> the project make me wary about trying to customise it:
>
>
> https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/wiki/Code-Architecture-For-Contributors
>
> How about you guys?
>
> Have you had good experiences building your own dashboards in RailsAdmin?
>
> Or if I'm about to invest a chunk of time building a dashboard where
> I'll most likely add my own screens, is it a better idea to just dive
> into ActiveAdmin instead?
>
> Ta
>
> Chris
>
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