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We use ActiveAdmin, and it's sort of ok for basic stuff.
</div><div><br></div><div>But...</div><div>- it craps all over MVC separation</div><div>- it's not easily extensible</div><div>- it can make your site run very slowly in development (although there are fixes for this)</div><div>- 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.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd really like to see a more "native" rails admin tool.</div>
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<span><div><div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Hoping I can tap into the LRUG hive mind here, with a question others</div><div>might find useful too - apologies if it's come up already in the last</div><div>couple of months.</div><div><br></div><div>We're developing a project at work which looks like it'll need some</div><div>kind of admin-dashboard for privileged users to sign in and see</div><div>various in-app metrics, like how many users are in the system, or how</div><div>many performed a specific action, and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, my preferred approach here I would be to look at which gems I</div><div>could use as a starting point for something like this - and the two</div><div>best options look to be either ActiveAdmin, and RailsAdmin.</div><div><br></div><div>They both give nice looking admin interfaces, without needing to go</div><div>spelunking through loads of code to deliver useful features, but I'd</div><div>love to hear which ones you guys have used in your own projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Reading this post here suggests that ActiveAdmin may be a better</div><div>choice in the long run on projects where you can't predict what a</div><div>product owner would want to measure.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/20/admin-interfaces-for-rails-apps-railsadmin-vs-activeadmin/">http://batsov.com/articles/2011/11/20/admin-interfaces-for-rails-apps-railsadmin-vs-activeadmin/</a></div><div><br></div><div>For my part, I've used RailsAdmin on a couple of projects, pretty much</div><div>using it out of the box, and I've been amazed at how much you get for</div><div>free, but pages like this when trying to understand the structure of</div><div>the project make me wary about trying to customise it:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/wiki/Code-Architecture-For-Contributors">https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/wiki/Code-Architecture-For-Contributors</a></div><div><br></div><div>How about you guys?</div><div><br></div><div>Have you had good experiences building your own dashboards in RailsAdmin?</div><div><br></div><div>Or if I'm about to invest a chunk of time building a dashboard where</div><div>I'll most likely add my own screens, is it a better idea to just dive</div><div>into ActiveAdmin instead?</div><div><br></div><div>Ta</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Chris Adams</div><div>mob: 07974 368 229</div><div>tel: 0207 558 8971</div><div>skype: chris.d.adams</div><div>twitter: mrchrisadams</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></div></span>
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