+1 to this, I too find that you tend to have to write very unnatural "views" to 
play nicely with activeadmin. 

A shame really, at first glance it seems to have a lot of potential. I'd only 
recommend it if you *really* only want a CRUD interface.

On 25/07/2012, at 5:02 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:

> I've used Active Admin. It was alright, but their DSL is strange. Encourages 
> you to write a bunch of view code outside of the view. I found that once you 
> want something slightly custom it can be very difficult.
> 
> Mostly I prefer to write my own. I have my own template that I start from so 
> I'm not just repeating boilerplate over and over. Customisation tends to be 
> very important for the stuff I do.
> 
>  - Ben
> 
> On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 4:12 PM, Antonio wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Do you guys have any experience using rails admin interfaces plugins? I 
>> found ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin and Active Scaffold. Which one do you 
>> recommend or had experience using it?
>> 
>> I am looking for something that would give me a CRUD and also a nice 
>> out-of-box interface that could be used by a non-technical person.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio
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