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Hi HN! Motor Admin gem has been developed to replace the outdated ActiveAdmin/RailsAdmin/Blazer gems in your existing or future Rails app. Unlike other Rails admin gems, Motor Admi…

The tool provides a unique https endpoint to accept webhook requests. And then it retranslates them in realtime into localhost using your the node.js engine which powers VS Code ex…

This tool could be a better alternative to Ngrok/Localtunnel to relay requests to localhost but with a convenient GUI. It's free and the source code is published on GitHub. Also it…

You should check Motor Admin open-source tool (I'm the creator of the tool): https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin >Auto-generating the GUI from SQL schema, similar to the ori…

Please feel free to open issue on Github if you face some difficulties or find some bugs/errors - hopefully those issues can be easily resolved.

You're right - Motor Admin is Postgres specific (or DB specific since it works with Mysql and SQLserver as well).

Motor Admin uses PG instead of Supabase API for better performance, ease of use and enhanced features. It has several advantages comparing to Retool like simple self-hosting option…

It directly connects to PostgreSQL database instance.

You can run it on AWS EC2 or on any other Ubuntu server - the app is distributed as a single executable binary - so you basically need to connect to your AWS EC2 via SSH, download …

Yeah, Heroku free tier would be enough to deploy and run the app.

The latest release of Motor Admin includes automatic DB schema reload feature. So now all change in Supabase schema are automatically applied to the Motor Admin panel. It means tha…

I think the coolest thing about Rails is actually the great amount of high quality Ruby gems for Rails. For instance, you can bootstrap a powerful Admin panel for your Rails projec…

SQL Server support has been added in the newest release. You can learn about how to upgrade to the latest version here: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/releases/tag/late…

There are many open-source no-code tools so you can gain full control over your data/application with them as well as contribute into the source code. For instance, you can deploy …

Thanks!

It looks like the binary doesn't work on mac M1 yet. You can try it in docker instead - also it's possible to deploy it on heroku for free.

For custom forms and actions everything should be handled on the backend API including the DB changes.

Binaries are build with https://github.com/motor-admin/ruby-packer - they do not require docker - this repo contains all instructions in order to pack a binary.

https://github.com/motor-admin/ruby-packer - had to create a fork because the upstream repo is not maintained anymore.

Thanks, proper documentation will come really soon. All configurations are stored in motor.yml file which is automatically generated in root directory. There might be two ways hand…

It's possible to override default CRUD with custom actions/forms and so all additional data processing will be handled on the product back end API side. So let's say to want to add…