[LRUG] Experiences using RailsAdmin vs ActiveAdmin

Wed Mar 21 01:13:04 PDT 2012

I use the same tools as Gerhard and the scaffold generator can generate a
CRUD interface, with the difference that Rails code is just code and can be
customised easily.

On 21 March 2012 00:56, Gerhard Lazu <gerhard at lazu.co.uk> wrote:

> 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).
>
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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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