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Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by guntars »

joncalhoun wrote: post #6
moondev wrote: post #5

How does this compare to activeadmin?

I am biased, but I didn't like a few things about active admin: 1. Customizing views requires that you use Arbre. Learning an entirely new tool for generating webpages when every developer is already familiar with partials, html, erb, etc seemed backwards to me. 2. I tried to design upmin-admin so it was easier to setup. Active admin requires a little bit more work (but truthfully not a ton more). 3. Adding things li…

Definitely +1 for for using default Rails view system. I've been fighting Arbre every step of the way every time I try to do something a little out of the ordinary.

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by jprince »

Certainly ActiveAdmin has given me a share of headaches as I built my website. That being said - it works, and I'm familiar with it(and Arbre) now. How do you plan to get established sites like mine to switch to Upmin with such a high upfront cost(namely, reconfiguring Upmin to have all the same functionality I bled for for ActiveAdmin?) Any kind of migration plan?

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by michaelmior »

joncalhoun wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I am one of the founders of Upmin, and I am leading the development of our admin framework for Rails. It is still pretty early, but I would love to get your feedback on it as we try to prioritize our development efforts. Thanks!

Looks really cool! Just a small note that I'm having some weird font issues on Windows using Chrome. (not really obvious until you download and view the full size)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fokwygisejzzk4m/Screenshot%202014-...

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by abbottry »

andybak wrote: post #22

I'm a big fan of the Django admin and I'm curious to know how life in Rails-land compares. Anyone with experience of both care to comment?

Did rails development for 6ish years full time, about 6 months ago I joined a startup using Django. The admin is QUITE nice, its very flexible in terms of models but as well as templates, allowing you to override specific blocks from a standard template, rather than copying a template.

This looks like the very beginning of the Django admin, something that Rails could seriously use. Admin functionality isn't meant to be user friendly, its essentially a CRUD system that mimics your schema.. something that would be quite handy in Rails. While I've always painfully just created my own admin for every project, I've used https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin a few times, and known others who have as well. It's great, but again not nearly as simple as Django.

Personally I would love to see a Django Admin style tool for Rails.

Of course, you do kind of get this with Rails Scaffold, but its not admin, its all user facing as its produced with the model and controller, far from ideal.

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by joncalhoun »

jprince wrote: post #23

Certainly ActiveAdmin has given me a share of headaches as I built my website. That being said - it works, and I'm familiar with it(and Arbre) now. How do you plan to get established sites like mine to switch to Upmin with such a high upfront cost(namely, reconfiguring Upmin to have all the same functionality I bled for for ActiveAdmin?) Any kind of migration plan?

If you already have active admin setup with a lot of things built on it, I wouldn't suggest changing it until you needed to add new stuff, or it was falling short somewhere for you. No point wasting the dev time if it works.

I would love to talk to you more about what you have customized, and what all would need to be reconfigured to get started with upmin to learn from you if you don't mind sharing. My email is jon [at] upmin.com.

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by joncalhoun »

michaelmior wrote: post #24
joncalhoun wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I am one of the founders of Upmin, and I am leading the development of our admin framework for Rails. It is still pretty early, but I would love to get your feedback on it as we try to prioritize our development efforts. Thanks!

Looks really cool! Just a small note that I'm having some weird font issues on Windows using Chrome. (not really obvious until you download and view the full size) https://www.dropbox.com/s/fokwygisejzzk4m/Screenshot%202014-...

That is odd.. I will try to look into it. Thanks for providing a screenshot.

Re: Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by joncalhoun »

frequentflyeru wrote: post #28

Does this work even if you don't have Devise as your authentication?

Yes, but you will need to add you own authentication in the routes. We are looking at other ways to add auth soon, but for now this was the simplest way to get started.
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