I haven't used it for a while but IMO ActiveAdmin is best used for simple admin tasks like "Add User", "change user's permissions". Once you go beyond, you get into all kinds of customization and it almost becomes its own framework. I'm sure there's some people on this mailing list that ActiveAdmin PTSD.
If you already have a good foundation of models in the codebase, you could try to evolve away from Active Admin by building out basic Rails controller/views. Hope that helps. Best Regards, Kevin English Work: http://kenglish.co Personal: http://english-su.com On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 4:29 PM Mark Florian <marknflor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Ruby pros! > > I met a lot of you during the March meet-up. I'm new to both San Diego and > Ruby and I'm excited to get to know some of you better and strengthen my > Ruby skills. I come from a strong Python/Django and .NET background and > have dabbled quite a bit with React on the frontend. > > I've been helping a local company (RoR stack) build towards their product > vision and I'm anticipating a lot of work will be in helping them automate > some of the internal operations. We are currently using Active Admin to > provide CRUD operations to everything with a little customization here and > there (think links that modify bits of data). This is a marketplace company > and there is a lot of operational work which requires the internal team to > be able to look up information about clients to get a big picture and also > take some action on client data - such things as approving a client, pause > their subscription, view their historic billing, reset their password, the > list goes on. Active Admin has worked but there is a lot of internal > frustration using it as an operations tool. It's hard for me to imagine > that we'll be able to sustain the operational growth using it as a tool but > it's possible that I'm not using it to it's capacity. > > I'm wondering if any of you out there know of other, more flexible tools > for running operations. As I see it, our options at this point are: > - Stick with ActiveAdmin and double-down on customization > - Find an alternative tool that has more flexibility > - Build something from scratch > > These 3 paths all have their pros and cons but wanted to get some other > opinion and thoughts about it. > > Appreciate any thoughts that you have! > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > sdruby@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sdruby+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/089bb5c4-8bea-4ba8-a37b-aac7a377f8d9%40googlegroups.com > . > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list sdruby@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sdruby+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/CAGYxSR-JTkqwstDxiqF7N0VE%2B%2B-pA1f3ZAf%2B1V0XjLA4ACwXyg%40mail.gmail.com.
