Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Admin Interfaces

[Ben Taylor]

I've used Active Admin. It was alright, but their DSL is strange. Encourages you to write a bunch of view code outside of the view. I found that once you want something slightly custom it can be very difficult.

Mostly I prefer to write my own. I have my own template that I start from so I'm not just repeating boilerplate over and over. Customisation tends to be very important for the stuff I do.

 - Ben

On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 4:12 PM, Antonio wrote:

Hi everyone,

Do you guys have any experience using rails admin interfaces plugins? I found ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin and Active Scaffold. Which one do you recommend or had experience using it?

I am looking for something that would give me a CRUD and also a nice out-of-box interface that could be used by a non-technical person.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Antonio

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[Warren Seen]

+1 to this, I too find that you tend to have to write very unnatural "views" to play nicely with activeadmin. 

A shame really, at first glance it seems to have a lot of potential. I'd only recommend it if you *really* only want a CRUD interface.

[Tim Uckun]

I have experience with Typus, Active Admin and Active Scaffold. I
liked the typus approach a lot but the documentation is terrible and
it's very limited.

For what it's worth they all suffer from various faults and it really
seems like a waste of time to have so many admin interfaces when none
of them really feel right.


There are also a couple of javascript only projects you may want to
experiment with. Jqtable and Jtable are both well documented. There
are a couple of rails projects that make it easier to work with
jqtable.


For what's it's worth I am currently using ActiveScaffold.

[Nicholas Faiz]

I experimented with them in January. I found that 

* a decent admin needs to be hand crafted, so you probably only want to use an auto generated one for very simple needs or as a stepping stone

* if you are using a relational db then ActiveAdmin is a good choice (using their DSL didn't bother me too much - though it was limited in some circumstances).

* if you are using nosql then you might as well write your own admin UI with a simple first step.

Cheers,

Nicholas

[Warren Seen]

On 26/07/2012, at 6:54 AM, Nicholas Faiz wrote:

* a decent admin needs to be hand crafted, so you probably only want to use an auto generated one for very simple needs or as a stepping stone

And this is the reason why I'd advise against ActiveAdmin, any advantage you gain from being able to spin it up quickly is lost once you start fighting against it to build out a "proper" bespoke admin system that matches the problem domain.