Administrate
Dev tools
admin framework
SHOW HN2015
124points
26comments
#187of 2,565 in 2015
Top 8%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
12 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 1 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.50.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple UI and easy to use
From 3 comments
Awesome work! very clean and simple UI. I'll have to checkout how it fairs in production, but it sounds leaner than ActiveAdmin and more naturally customizable. My one complaint…
meesterdude on HNNice simple CRUD app, good job
uberneo on HNLooks pretty cool!
hajrice on HN
Less rigid and more customizable than ActiveAdmin
From 2 comments
It's actually explained in the post. To sum it up, this seems to be less rigid and doesn't come with a lot of expectations about your project/structure, which is nice. However, I…
thirdsun on HNAwesome work! very clean and simple UI. I'll have to checkout how it fairs in production, but it sounds leaner than ActiveAdmin and more naturally customizable. My one complaint…
meesterdude on HN
Trust in thoughtbot's open source work
From 2 comments
Thoughtbot really has some smart people who make great things. I've really liked both Hound and Formkeep (not to mention their plethora of open source projects like Suspenders,…
urs2102 on HNI have immense respect for the team at thoughtbot for building all of these incredibly useful gems for the ruby community. As an aside, the thoughtbot playbook is a fantastic…
fareesh on HN
Objections
Search only works on Postgres because of ILIKE; maker is fixing it
From 3 comments
The search feature currently only works on Postgres. It builds an SQL sentence with an ILIKE clause, for case-insensitive matching, which I think is valid only in Postgres. It's…
amatriain on HNSorry about that! Working on the ILIKE fix at https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/166
Croaky on HNIt works in SQLite now. I'll wait for the next release. Thanks!
amatriain on HN
Hard to build complex dashboards compared to ActiveAdmin
From 1 comment
The search feature currently only works on Postgres. It builds an SQL sentence with an ILIKE clause, for case-insensitive matching, which I think is valid only in Postgres. It's…
amatriain on HN
Auto-generated admin can get messy on bigger projects
From 1 comment
RailsAdmin's "automatic" nature is a big win for us, whereas with ActiveAdmin we would have to write some code (even if it is easy code) to get us to the same point. For some of…
bshimmin on HN
Requests
Support for SQLite and other databases
From 1 comment
The search feature currently only works on Postgres. It builds an SQL sentence with an ILIKE clause, for case-insensitive matching, which I think is valid only in Postgres. It's…
amatriain on HN
Automatically generated API
From 1 comment
Most of these tools miss 2 things: - Automaticly generated API - Image upload ( eg. as a property or productImage which is only a 1 - * relationship without meta attributes) --…
NicoJuicy on HN
Image upload support
From 1 comment
Most of these tools miss 2 things: - Automaticly generated API - Image upload ( eg. as a property or productImage which is only a 1 - * relationship without meta attributes) --…
NicoJuicy on HN
Questions
How does it compare to ActiveAdmin?
From 1 comment
How does this compare to ActiveAdmin?
dublinclontarf on HN
Alternatives named
ActiveAdmin
From 3 comments
How does this compare to ActiveAdmin?
dublinclontarf on HNI take it you've had a bad experience with ActiveAdmin? Even with its "DSL" (I wouldn't call it a DSL) it's pretty customisable and can do pretty much anything brought up in the…
seivan on HNAwesome work! very clean and simple UI. I'll have to checkout how it fairs in production, but it sounds leaner than ActiveAdmin and more naturally customizable. My one complaint…
meesterdude on HN
RailsAdmin
From 2 comments
As someone who's played the "Let's use Rails Admin, it's quick and easy... <time passes> Oh hell, the client wants to see what in there now? <much more time passes, punctuated by…
bshimmin on HNRailsAdmin's "automatic" nature is a big win for us, whereas with ActiveAdmin we would have to write some code (even if it is easy code) to get us to the same point. For some of…
bshimmin on HN