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Top 17 Ruby Admin Interface Projects
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Same reason IDEs — when you really know them — allow for quicker development compared to using primitive text editors with a bunch of third-party plugins duck-taped together. When you understand the framework, everything is written to the same standard, behaves in similar ways, and is where you expect it to be. Adding things like background job processing requires changing one line of config.
Also, one major thing I'm missing personally is automatically generated OpenAPI specifications + API documentation & API clients autogenerated from it. Last time I checked Go, you had to write the spec manually, which is just ridiculous — the code already has all the necessary info, and duplicating that effort is time-consuming and error-prone (the spec says one thing, the code does another). This may be out of date, but if it still isn't, it is enough to disqualify the stack completely for me.
Also, I don't think there anything similar in the Go world to these administration panels:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/contrib/admin/
https://activeadmin.info
https://nova.laravel.com
which are just fantastic for intranet projects and/or quick prototyping.
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RailsAdmin
RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
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Motor Admin
Deploy a no-code admin panel for your application in less than a minute. Stop wasting time on custom internal tools and focus on the actual product. Motor Admin allows to launch a custom admin panel for any application.
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Avo is looking for a mid-level Ruby on Rails Developer and I could not recommend enough the experience of working with Adrian Marin - the creator of Avo.
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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.
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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.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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Sail
Sail is a lightweight Rails engine that brings an admin panel for managing configuration settings on a live Rails app (by vinistock)
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Forest Admin
💎 Ruby on Rails agent for Forest Admin to integrate directly to your existing Ruby on Rails backend application.
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Faalis
A RubyOnRails platform for rapid web application development. Containing a rich and flexible dashboard interface
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Admin Interface projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ActiveAdmin | 9,570 |
| 2 | RailsAdmin | 7,925 |
| 3 | Motor Admin | 2,105 |
| 4 | Trestle | 1,988 |
| 5 | Avo | 1,633 |
| 6 | ActiveScaffold | 1,113 |
| 7 | motor-admin-rails | 795 |
| 8 | activeadmin_addons | 770 |
| 9 | Upmin Admin | 753 |
| 10 | madmin | 645 |
| 11 | Sail | 508 |
| 12 | Godmin | 485 |
| 13 | Forest Admin | 374 |
| 14 | super | 85 |
| 15 | Faalis | 54 |
| 16 | Iconly | 10 |
| 17 | activeadmin-rails | 4 |
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