On 27 April 2012 14:57, Emanresu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I need some help, my partner and I have hired an app development > company to create an iPhone app that allows shops to list their > inventory and advertise their specials, there is also a back end admin > website that shop owners can login to that allows them to update their > inventory and specials. The admin website communicates directly with > the iPhone app so that any changes made are shown on the app, pretty > much in real time. This admin site has been created using Ruby on > Rails and is called "Rails Admin." > > When we originally gave the developers our brief with all the features > and functions we required, the developers confirmed that we would be > able to have it so that shop owners could make changes that affect 1 > or more of their shops, or all of them at once. This would be done by > having a super admin login where a shop owner could control changes > for multiple shops at once and managers at individual shops would have > a standard admin login with changes only affecting their shop. > > As the project progressed, the developers advised that due to the > limitations of "Rails Admin" it would not be possible to have this > functionality and that we would have to choose between having it so > that any changes made to one shop would affect all shops under one > login, or, having it so that any changes made would only affect > individual shops (under one login) so that if there was a change that > affected more than one shop then the change would need to be repeated > for each shop one at time. They have advised that it was not possible > to customize "Rails Admin" and that for us to have the desired > flexibility that we required and originally requested they would need > to have a new admin system built from scratch and we would be looking > at a cost of 3 to 4 thousand dollars. > > Since this time they have expressed on numerous occasions that they > have greatly underquoted on our project and they been under financial > pressure to the point where they was not certain if they could > continue their business. They have now emailed us a quote to build a > new admin site. The quote is for 13 thousand dollars but states that > because they can use the design and css files from the current "Rails > Admin" site it will reduce the price to 9 thousand dollars. > > What I am wanting help with is to know if they have purchased a Rails > Kit (such as you might find on this link, http://railskits.com/ ) > called Rails Admin for our project, are these kits customizeable after > purchase to add to, or modify any functionality within the Ruby on > Rails framework? It kind of sounds to me that he is just going to be > adding the originally requested (and quoted on) functionality that he > advised was not possible, to the admin site we currently have and > charging us 9 thousand dollars to do it.
Possibly they are referring to https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin which is free. I have no knowledge of the details of this but I would have thought it likely that any competent Rails programmer would have little difficulty extending it in the way you want. I wonder whether in fact they have little knowledge of Rails and would prefer to do it a different way rather than extend the existing system. Why have you posted this again rather than continuing the previous thread, where I think you did not respond to the suggestions made then? It is not good manners to completely ignore the help previously offered. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
