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ActiveAdmin | Avo | |
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22 | 48 | |
9,443 | 1,362 | |
0.3% | 2.9% | |
9.3 | 9.7 | |
10 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 2.5 Generic |
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ActiveAdmin
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Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
Can you clarify what's the "tremendous value" you're getting out of the Django admin?
At Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ we are using Active Admin https://activeadmin.info/ for Ruby on Rails, which seems quite similar to the Django admin. In my experience, it's mostly useful as a fairly basic read-only view of what's in the database. In Rails, it's so easy to whip together a custom view that we tend to do that, and the Active Admin is nice to have but I wouldn't say "tremendous value".
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Top 5 Ruby on Rails Gems
Github Link : https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin
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View code coverage (active_admin and orther .arb file)
for those who know [https://activeadmin.info/](https://activeadmin.info/) it uses a file format [https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre](https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre)
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Show HN: Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster โ Avo
Very neat! My first thought was that this was a competitor to https://bullettrain.co/.
Looking into it a bit more, it seems more aimed at building admin panels than whole apps. I guess it competes against tools like https://activeadmin.info/?
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
We briefly considered migrating to a full-grown Rails admin interface, such as ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin, Administrate or Avo. We especially liked Avo which is built on a very modern stack similar to ours (Tailwind + Hotwire + ViewComponents). In the end, we didnโt go this route as we found some of the options a bit too restrictive (even though Avo is very flexible) and we did not feel like trying to amend it to our needs. For example, Avo renders forms in a 1-field-per-row layout while we wanted something more similar to the Tailwind UI Stacked form layout. Nevertheless, we found a great deal of inspiration in the Avo code and its design principles.
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Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app
I second Rails. It's incredibly polished and has really good gems to speed up dev. ActiveAdmin is a great gem if you need to quickly make an admin dashboard. It was useful when I had a small consultancy.
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Admin Framework for Rails
See an example: https://activeadmin.info It provides a fast way to create back office functionality.
Until recently, my default Admin was ActiveAdmin library. But I found it a bit challenging onboarding new engineers with Inherited Resources gem. Also, a lot is changed on the frontend side with webpack, and now esbuild. I would like to use TailwindCSS to simplify the development. IMHO, ActiveAdmin legacy makes it way more complicated for customization to a new project.
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We built an open-source platform (3k stars on GitHub) for building & deploying react based internal tools.
[1] https://activeadmin.info/
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Stop Building a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End
I can't speak much about Rails, as I've only played with it. But I've used a lot Django in the past.
Regarding the Django admin (in rails you have ActiveAdmin[1]) think if it just as a glorified database explorer. It is an internal tool for developers, product managers and maybe for your support team. It is in no way thought to be used by end users. Every attempt I've seen to use it as such was a catastrophic failure.
With Django, if you know plain HTML and CSS, with the tools I've mentioned in the comment you're responding to, you can build almost anything... For example, let's say you need a highly interactive client side table.... you can always just attach a Vue or a React component for it by using Unpoly compilers [2].
I'd say this stack is less useful the more your app needs to work fully offline... but if you don't have that constraint... I cannot think of anything that can't be built faster and safer.
Avo
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Show HN: Build your startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates
Avo is a great content management system for Rails. I'm a paying customer. https://avohq.io/
Quality is often much better with these kinds of templates and frameworks, because the creators often can make better default choices.
For example, Avo (https://avohq.io) and Bullet Train (https://bullettrain.co/) are IMHO both much higher quality out of the box than what a typical intermediate Rails developer could accomplish in months of full time learning and coding.
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Mastering Rails Web Navigation with link_to and button_to Helpers - Part 2
<%= link_to(@car) do %> <%= @car.name %> -- Check this car! <% end %> cars/1"> Tesla -- Check this car! <%= link_to "https://avohq.io/" do %> AvoHQ - The Best Rails Guide <% end %> https://avohq.io/"> AvoHQ - The Best Rails Guide
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Ready System with a Modern Stack and Many Features Using Ruby 3.2, Rails 7.0 and Avo 2
Access the Avo, and click on Sign Up. After completing registration, click on your profile icon and select Subscriptions, then Choose a plan, choose the Pro version and click on Start 30 day trial. The system URL is not required, click Subscribe. Now you will have your key to use the Avo 2 Pro version for 30 days.
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Experience using Retool and Ruby on Rails
But there's another alternative for Ruby on Rails. This is a shameless plug, but why don't you try Avo?
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Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
Nothing really beats Rails. Use something like Jumpstart (jumpstartrails.com) and Avo (https://avohq.io) and you scaffold a full consumer-ready app in literally a few hours.
The thing that bugs me the most with Next.JS and the whole JAMStack movement is that, yeah, you get from "git clone" to deployed on Vercel in two minutes, but if you need to create real app features like a sturdy admin, accounts, authorization, proper asset management, CI/CD, it takes a whole lotta time. I'm not even touching the most common app features.
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Show HN: Refine v3.97 โ Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps
Hey. I'm Adrian, author of Avo. Avo is similar to Refine but for Ruby on Rails.
It helps developers create CRUD-like applications such as internal tools, admin panels, Content Management Systems and user-facing apps.
I love seeing more and more movement in this space.
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Write admin tools from day one
Laravel has Nova, Django has Django Admin, and now, Rails has Avo.
*I am the author of Avo
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How to bundle assets in a Rails engine
One approach we had with avo-hq/avo was to precompile the assets before we publish a new version and serve them as static assets to the parent app.
What are some alternatives?
RailsAdmin - RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails
go-admin - A golang framework helps gopher to build a data visualization and admin panel in ten minutes
ActiveScaffold - Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with ActiveScaffold. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.
Forest Admin - ๐ Ruby on Rails agent for Forest Admin to integrate directly to your existing Ruby on Rails backend application.
daisyui - ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ โThe most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
motor-admin-rails - Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.
Typus
Godmin - Admin framework for Rails 5+