RailsAdmin Alternatives

RailsAdmin reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
• 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.

• RailsAdmin: How to disable edit action?
  1 project | /r/rails | 7 Oct 2021

  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.

• 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.

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