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Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by gregbell » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:02 PM UTC

Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails
activeadmin.info

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Post by pcreux » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

Awesome!

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:31 PM UTC

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Post by nikdotca » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

The code is as beautiful as the interface.

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Post by charlesju » Thu, May 12, 2011, 9:59 PM UTC

This is amazing thanks! How similar is this to the Django admin panel?

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Post by cynusx » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

This is way better than ActiveScaffold ever was! awesome.

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Post by mattvague » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:13 PM UTC

As someone who uses this on a few of his own projects, let me just say that ActiveAdmin is a game changer.

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Post by drewda » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:22 PM UTC

I've been having good luck with rails_admin[1], which is currently in the process of receiving a nice facelift[2].

[1] https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/

[2] https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/issues/317

Re: Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails

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Post by gregbell » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:22 PM UTC

charlesju wrote: post #5

This is amazing thanks! How similar is this to the Django admin panel?

It's very similar. Internally, its taking a different approach, but in the end, the goals of the projects are fairly close.

Active Admin provides similar features, but does so with a DSL instead of implementing classes, as is the case with Django Admin.

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Post by jschuur » Thu, May 12, 2011, 10:24 PM UTC

Kudos to the developer for having a nicely presented web site for the project too, and not just a github repo. All too often, a lot of awesome projects hide on github without some upfront presentation of the work beyond a short README file.

The developer will know why their work is great and how it can help others, but you have to make it easy to recognize for the uninitiated too. That still applies for technical projects that are going to require advanced programming efforts to integrate anyway. Don't think of it as marketing, think of it as a necessary step to evangelizing your work and bringing its benefits to a wider audience.