Devise VS RailsAdmin

Compare Devise vs RailsAdmin and see what are their differences.

Devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. (by heartcombo)

RailsAdmin

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data (by railsadminteam)
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Devise RailsAdmin
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23,681 7,849
0.3% 0.2%
7.1 7.5
9 days ago 26 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Devise

Posts with mentions or reviews of Devise. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

RailsAdmin

Posts with mentions or reviews of RailsAdmin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.
  • Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
    Like most things, it's probably a combination of things.

    The Django Admin existed before Django publicly existed. That meant that once anyone started using Django they knew that they should constrain their use of Django in certain ways so that the Django Admin would work with their usage. Features that would be added to Django would be built with the Django Admin in mind.

    Many tools like Flask or FastAPI don't have an opinionated model layer like Django. Without that, you can't really create an admin interface programatically. People could be storing their data in any sort of fashion anywhere. How would one build an admin system for something like Flask or FastAPI where there's no convention around how people set up data access? A lot of frameworks out there don't tell you "access your data in this way" or "this is how users will be authenticated." Without those two things, it's hard to really create an admin system.

    There are similar systems available for some frameworks, but since they aren't part of the core framework, they don't get the same attention. Someone creates it, but it doesn't have the kind of community buy-in that sustains it. One of the odd things about Django is that the admin system is under `django.contrib` which indicated that they didn't intend for it to be in the core of Django forever, but that's not really how `django.contrib` ended up. It continued to be a core part of Django maintained as part of the framework.

    Like I said, there are admin dashboards available in other frameworks like RailsAdmin (https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin) or Core Admin for .NET (https://github.com/edandersen/core-admin) and I'm sure there's more. However, both Rails and .NET provide most of what Django provides (and a lot more than most frameworks). Rails and .NET both have a default data access ORM that a majority of people using those frameworks tend to use. .NET has built-in authentication/authorization so the admin can work off that. Rails doesn't have auth, but RailsAdmin uses some plugins.

  • From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
    11 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022
    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 didn’t 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.
  • railstart-niceadmin support more features
    37 projects | /r/rails | 16 Feb 2022
    - [rails_admin](https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin)
  • railstart-niceadmin release now!Backend management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7
    29 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2022
    rails_admin
  • Admin Framework for Rails
    10 projects | /r/rails | 10 Nov 2021
    https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin is very popular and i find it very easy to use.
  • 🤷‍♀️ The easiest way to monitor your app in production is email?
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2021
    It's really helpful to have a way to track what's going on with your application in production, things like: number of user sign ups, status of user accounts, number of X new database entries etc. Out of the box dashboards like Rails Admin are great but only go so far, eventually you will want significant customizations.
  • An Easy Admin Panel - Rails 6
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 May 2021
    Having an admin panel in your Rails application is honestly, to me, the best thing to do when it comes to keeping track of your users and giving them permissions. Finding out how to have an admin panel though, that was tough, mainly because I wasn’t searching for the right thing. The rails_admin gem, so simple but can control so much! The installation and usage is very simple depending on what you are trying to use it on. I should probably tell you, I am using devise with the user having a boolean attribute called admin.
  • Ask HN: What is an easy way to create web UIs as a back end dev/data scientist?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2021
    Check out Retool: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1564

    A wswig for internal UI/dashboards has a lot of value for companies that don't have a dedicated internal tools team.

    My company had an internal tools teams at one point but it got killed because of other business priorities.

    We use https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin, that still requires development time and frontend knowledge, but the framework is terrible.

    https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ is much better but also required development time and frontend knowledge.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Devise and RailsAdmin you can also consider the following projects:

Sorcery - Magical Authentication

ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

Rodauth - Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework

Authlogic - A simple ruby authentication solution.

Clearance - Rails authentication with email & password.

Knock - Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API

Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

JWT - A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.

OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails