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Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails

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

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Post by jschuur »

acangiano wrote: post #30
jschuur wrote: post #10

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 pro…

> think of it as a necessary step to evangelizing your work and bringing its benefits to a wider audience. Which is marketing. A very good thing if done right, despite how some developers instinctually feel about it.

True. For cynical people and coders used to a corporate environment, 'markting' is often something which overhypes a product, or makes promises in a sales situation that they then have to put up with and develop.

Whatever it's called, marketing isn't just something for companies, large or small. It can apply to single developers, who simply want to make sure all the hard work put into a project ends being worth it, because other developers benefited from your code.

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

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Post by ryanlchan »

jschuur wrote: post #10

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 pro…

I honestly expected to pay for this until I hit 'Get the code' and saw a github page. Simply making the website aesthetically pleasing increased my willingness to download and pay by an order of magnitude.

Even now I'm looking for a donate button.

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

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Post by NoPiece »

cynusx wrote: post #6

This is way better than ActiveScaffold ever was! awesome.

Active Admin does look very pretty, but in defense of ActiveScaffold, it is simple, works, and is easy to set up. Being able to throw up Active Scaffold generated pages has saved me a ton of time over the last couple years.

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

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Post by esmevane »

Thanks for posting this.

There was a lot of care in delivering this product. As others have pointed out, this is so compellingly done that you could legitimately expect to pay for it. But no, it's open sourced - thank you very much for that.

I definitely now have plans to incorporate this as an experiment in the next application I cook up. Excited to have an option available which can reduce admin development time dramatically, freeing me up to worry almost entirely on UX and front functionality.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pcreux wrote: post #14
msbarnett wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For future reference, you're being downvoted because Hacker News has traditionally looked down upon non-contributive, vacuous one-word comments. Particularly if they looked like they're coming from new accounts to try to boost the article's ranking. Since you appear to be one of the developers on this project, I think it would have been better received if you had introduced yourself as such.

Oh... Ok, I will introduce myself before saying that Active Admin is awesome from now on.

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