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7,853 | 12,651 | |
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7.5 | 6.0 | |
about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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RailsAdmin
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Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
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.
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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 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.
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railstart-niceadmin support more features
- [rails_admin](https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin)
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railstart-niceadmin release now!Backend management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7
rails_admin
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Admin Framework for Rails
https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin is very popular and i find it very easy to use.
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🤷♀️ The easiest way to monitor your app in production is email?
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.
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RailsAdmin: How to disable edit action?
I'm working on a rails project with rails_admin and multiple models. There are several people working on the backend and I want to remove the ability to edit some of the records which have a imported boolean set to true. This records should just be readable in rails_admin.
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An Easy Admin Panel - Rails 6
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.
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Ask HN: What is an easy way to create web UIs as a back end dev/data scientist?
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.
Capistrano
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Ask HN: Deploying my project on multiple servers?
If you don't want to go down the NFS share route then Capistrano is a useful tool if you're willing to write a little bit of ruby. It comes with some built in goodies like rollbacks. It's an oldie (pre-dockerize everything), but still useful.
https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
You can start by deploying from your machine to simultaneously get it deploying across all your servers, then I'd consider having a CI/CD pipeline take over and run Capistrano for you.
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railstart-niceadmin support more features
- Integrate automation deployment: [capistrano](https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano)
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railstart-niceadmin release now!Backend management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7
Integrate automation deployment: capistrano
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Run Your Rails App On Kubernetes: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
The deployment process generally includes making the new version available, directing traffic from the old to the new version, and stopping the old versions. Capistrano has been doing this since 2006. However, what makes Kubernetes deployments better is the minimum number of pods required, and its rollout strategy minimizes or eliminates downtime. For example, a rolling update strategy can ensure new pods gradually replace old pods with configs like maxSurge and maxUnavailable. Because this is done in a declarative way, as a user or operator, you only need to ask Kubernetes to apply a given deployment and Kubernetes does the rest. Next up is the Kubernetes config map.
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Massh v1.7.0 - Distributed SSH with concurrent session streaming.
[1] https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
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10 Awesome Ruby Gems for Ruby on Rails Web Development
Capistrano
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Approach to zero downtime deployment when not using vercel infrastructure?
What I had considered was writing a deployment script where upon successful build in a separate folder, it'd swap out the deployed folder, similar to how Capistrano works. It has a "current" folder and it'll build in a temporary folder and then replace the symlink to a newer build.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
capistrano with plugins for deployment
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Deployer on GitHub Actions
deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP. It comes with "Zero Downtime Deployments" out of the box and can be extended by writing simple PHP code. (capistrano would be the equivalent in the Ruby world).
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Cronjob to run on multiple multiple mchines
Capistrano, if you like Ruby.
What are some alternatives?
ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
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.
Deployinator
Avo - Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
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.
Rubber - A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.