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2,705 | 5,575 | |
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8.1 | 7.0 | |
9 days ago | 1 day ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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inherited_resources
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Admin Framework for Rails
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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An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
All Active Admin controllers are inherited from InheritedResources::Base, which means that we can modify their behavior using library methods. For example, here is how the list of available controller actions is defined:
First of all, take a good look at the detailed README. In addition, pay attention to how the controllers are organized in Active Admin, notice the authorization logic, and other little things like additional helpers.
ransack
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ransack VS Searchkick - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2021
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Airtable-like table filtering
I use ransack for this and find it very powerful and flexible without the need to rely on complex JS.
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An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
First of all, you should take a look at Active Admin's documentation regarding filters. You can continue your overview with the official README and wiki, where, among other things, you can find view-helpers to create custom search forms.
For especially complicated cases, you can consider learning how to create custom predicates and Ransackers - extensions that convert parameters directly into Arel (internal library ActiveRecord, used to build SQL queries).
The postfix _cont is one of the many predicates available in Ransack. Predicates determine which SQL query is to be generated for search. You can read more about all available predicates in the official wiki.
What are some alternatives?
pg_search - pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search
Searchkick - Intelligent search made easy
Elasticsearch Rails - Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails
Sunspot - Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch
SearchCop - Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord
active-date-range - Powerful DateRanges for Ruby and ActiveSupport
has_scope - Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources
Mongoid Search - Simple full text search for Mongoid ORM
Thinking Sphinx - Sphinx/Manticore plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails
textacular - Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular will extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!
scoped_search - Easily search you ActiveRecord models with a simple query language that converts to SQL.