[LRUG] Experiences using RailsAdmin vs ActiveAdmin

[Tom Blomfield]

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. 

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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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