[LRUG] Experiences using RailsAdmin vs ActiveAdmin

[Tom Blomfield]

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. 

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Tom Blomfield
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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 (mailto: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
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> > 
> > gocardless.com (http://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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