ActiveAdmin is a Ruby on Rails framework for building administration interfaces. It allows developers to quickly generate admin dashboards with features like CRUD, filtering, searching, exporting, and permissions. To use ActiveAdmin, add the gem to a Rails application and generate an admin resource. This will provide a basic admin interface that can then be customized through additional code to meet specific requirements like adding sections, filters, and customizing displayed columns. ActiveAdmin aims to provide an interface that is fast for developers to build and easy for operations staff to use.

1. ActiveAdmin
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails

2. Why?

3. Complexity of
Application
Complexity of
Administration

4. Production Application
Administration
!= CRUD

5. Dashboards, Analytics, Auditing,
Reporting, Admin Notes, Admin
Users, Groups & Permissions, Search
& Finding Resources, CSV Export,
Filtered Lists, API, Notifications, etc...

6. + CRUD

8. Goals:
* Fast for developers
* Usable by operations staff
* Encode interface best practices
* Extendable to meet req’s

9. # Add to Gemfile...
gem "activeadmin"
# Install...
$> rails generate active_admin:install
# Migrate..
$> rake db:migrate
# Voila! Visit http://localhost:3000/admin
$> rails server

12. $> rails g active_admin:resource Post

13. # app/admin/posts.rb
ActiveAdmin.register Post do
end

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17. # app/admin/products.rb
ActiveAdmin.register Product do
# Create sections on the index screen
scope :all, :default => true
scope :available
scope :drafts
# Filterable attributes on the index screen
filter :title
filter :author, :as => :select
filter :price
filter :created_at
# Customize columns displayed on the index screen in the table
index do
id_column
column("State"){|product| status_tag product.state }
column :title
column "Price", :sortable => :price do |product|
number_to_currency product.price
end
default_actions
end
end

20. We love pull requests!
Twitter: @gregbell
http://activeadmin.info
github.com/gregbell/active_admin