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Hello everyone, Motor Admin creator here Last year I've been searching for some administration engine for my Rails side project and I was not able to find a su

by petems 5y ago

Hello everyone, Motor Admin creator here Last year I've been searching for some administration engine for my Rails side project and I was not able to find a suitable option. I hate writing a ton of custom code for internal admin/tools so I decided to write even more code to build a general-purpose, no-code Motor Admin Motor Admin allows to convert raw data into a powerful admin panel to cover almost every operation needed for most businesses. Features: - CRUD out of the box with many customization options - Custom data reports with SQL - Business intelligence dashboards with fields and variables - Forms builder for custom workflows to integrate with API - Report alerts via Email or Slack - User roles and permissions - Audit log - English, Spanish, Portuguese UI languages - Works nicely on mobile screens Motor Admin is distributed as a single executable binary - it can be easily self-hosted on Heroku or via Docker. Also, it's possible to try it locally with binaries for macOS and Ubuntu Linux. Would be glad to receive any feedback or answer any questions regarding the project. GitHub: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/ https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/

gingerlime 5y ago
This looks awesome. How difficult would you estimate migrating from ActiveAdmin to Motor? (beyond CRUD stuff ideally... i.e. we have quite a bit of custom code into various actions, screens etc) ActiveAdmin serves us well, although shows its age, and recently it feels a bit abandoned (don't want to say anything bad, it's a tremendous piece of open source and we got a ton of value from it).
- petems 5y ago
  There is a ruby gem for rails projects: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails It's hard to say how difficult it could be but some companies already migrated from activeadmin to motor admin gem for their rails projects and they claim that it was worth it :)
  - gingerlime 5y ago
    Thank you! we will definitely look into it. It looks very promising!
kristianpaul 5y ago
How this compares with Retool?
- kevsim 5y ago
  Or ForestAdmin
  - petems 5y ago
    The biggest difference is that Motor Admin has a convenient self-hosted option with a single click deploy. Self-hosted comes with many benefits like custom domain, ability to host under VPN, and faster UI due to lower network roundtrip and CORS avoidance. Also, Motor Admin open-source version has powerful business intelligence features with custom SQL reports, BI dashboards with variables and fields, and automated email reports. Also Motor Admin's UI is optimized on mobile and the UI is faster in general. In terms of available features open-source, self-hosted Motor Admin could become a much better option than ForestAdmin SaaS for an admin interface.
- petems 5y ago
  Retool is focused more on visual builders and requires more configurations/code to set everything up via custom dashboards. Motor Admin has a simple unified Admin UI without the need of actually building the UIs unlike in Retool WYSIWYG. The versatility of Motor Admin can be achieved via in-app UI configurations, custom forms, reports, and dashboards. Btw, here is a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Six8ZEP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Six8ZEP8 Also, Motor Admin has a simple self-hosted deployment option.
mathnmusic 5y ago
Thanks for building this! It seems to cover most features I'd want. The Dockerfile is simply downloading a release from GitHub. Docker Compose file is referring to an existing image on DockerHub. How can I build a Docker image for myself starting from the code? It would be nice to see Motor Admin listed in CapRover's (open-source PaaS for self-hosting) "One Click Apps" catalog: https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/ https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/
- petems 5y ago
  Thanks! Regarding your question - Motor Admin Ruby/Rails code is available under: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin - so you can dockerize this Rails app from here. But binaries still should be a much better option - you can join https://discord.com/invite/mFFJKSTgw3 https://discord.com/invite/mFFJKSTgw3 if you have any questions.
  - mathnmusic 5y ago
    What I meant to ask is: Why is the Dockerfile that generates https://hub.docker.com/r/motoradmin/motoradmin https://hub.docker.com/r/motoradmin/motoradmin not available in the repo? It makes it hard to verify exactly what went into the image or to dockerize on my own. I don't see any instructions for building the binary executable either.
    - petems 5y ago
      Docker file is available in the repo: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/blob/master/Dockerfile https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/blob/master/Docke...
      - mathnmusic 5y ago
        This simply downloads a 65MB binary executable "motor-admin-Linux-x86_64" from GitHub and does not build from the code given in the repo. There's no visibility into what the binary actually contains or how to build it on my own.
mule1 5y ago
Looks awesome, are there places to contribute? I.e support for other databases/ knowledge sources like elastic search?
- petems 5y ago
  Thanks, it's possible to contribute into https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails it's a ruby gem which powers motor admin app - support for new data sources and more data visualization options (cohort) are welcomed :)
bound008 5y ago
@petems do you have plans to attach a license to your component library? https://github.com/omohokcoj/view3 https://github.com/omohokcoj/view3
- petems 5y ago
  thanks will do, it's MIT either way.
jimkleiber 5y ago
I'm excited to try and yet can't seem to get it working. I followed the steps to install it on MacOS from the GitHub page and I'm thinking maybe I ran the curl command from the wrong directory, as when I try to run ./motor-admin, it gives two dlyd errors: 1) "lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow" 2) "Symbol not found: ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow" And it shows the "Referenced from:" being my current directory, somewhere in my Documents folder, and then "Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib" Any idea what might be causing the error? Thanks!
- petems 5y ago
  It looks like the binary doesn't work on mac M1 yet. You can try it in docker instead - also it's possible to deploy it on heroku for free.
  - jimkleiber 5y ago
    Ahh, I think I may have the opposite problem: I'm on Mojave and I think I need a newer version of Xcode but can't update it because I'm still on Mojave :-) I'll try it in Docker, thank you!

by petems 5y ago

gingerlime 5y ago

This looks awesome. How difficult would you estimate migrating from ActiveAdmin to Motor? (beyond CRUD stuff ideally... i.e. we have quite a bit of custom code into various actions, screens etc) ActiveAdmin serves us well, although shows its age, and recently it feels a bit abandoned (don't want to say anything bad, it's a tremendous piece of open source and we got a ton of value from it).

petems 5y ago
There is a ruby gem for rails projects: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails It's hard to say how difficult it could be but some companies already migrated from activeadmin to motor admin gem for their rails projects and they claim that it was worth it :)
- gingerlime 5y ago
  Thank you! we will definitely look into it. It looks very promising!

kristianpaul 5y ago

How this compares with Retool?

kevsim 5y ago
Or ForestAdmin
- petems 5y ago
  The biggest difference is that Motor Admin has a convenient self-hosted option with a single click deploy. Self-hosted comes with many benefits like custom domain, ability to host under VPN, and faster UI due to lower network roundtrip and CORS avoidance. Also, Motor Admin open-source version has powerful business intelligence features with custom SQL reports, BI dashboards with variables and fields, and automated email reports. Also Motor Admin's UI is optimized on mobile and the UI is faster in general. In terms of available features open-source, self-hosted Motor Admin could become a much better option than ForestAdmin SaaS for an admin interface.
petems 5y ago
Retool is focused more on visual builders and requires more configurations/code to set everything up via custom dashboards. Motor Admin has a simple unified Admin UI without the need of actually building the UIs unlike in Retool WYSIWYG. The versatility of Motor Admin can be achieved via in-app UI configurations, custom forms, reports, and dashboards. Btw, here is a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Six8ZEP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Six8ZEP8 Also, Motor Admin has a simple self-hosted deployment option.

mathnmusic 5y ago

Thanks for building this! It seems to cover most features I'd want. The Dockerfile is simply downloading a release from GitHub. Docker Compose file is referring to an existing image on DockerHub. How can I build a Docker image for myself starting from the code? It would be nice to see Motor Admin listed in CapRover's (open-source PaaS for self-hosting) "One Click Apps" catalog: https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/ https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/

petems 5y ago
Thanks! Regarding your question - Motor Admin Ruby/Rails code is available under: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin - so you can dockerize this Rails app from here. But binaries still should be a much better option - you can join https://discord.com/invite/mFFJKSTgw3 https://discord.com/invite/mFFJKSTgw3 if you have any questions.
- mathnmusic 5y ago
  What I meant to ask is: Why is the Dockerfile that generates https://hub.docker.com/r/motoradmin/motoradmin https://hub.docker.com/r/motoradmin/motoradmin not available in the repo? It makes it hard to verify exactly what went into the image or to dockerize on my own. I don't see any instructions for building the binary executable either.
  - petems 5y ago
    Docker file is available in the repo: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/blob/master/Dockerfile https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/blob/master/Docke...
    - mathnmusic 5y ago
      This simply downloads a 65MB binary executable "motor-admin-Linux-x86_64" from GitHub and does not build from the code given in the repo. There's no visibility into what the binary actually contains or how to build it on my own.

mule1 5y ago

Looks awesome, are there places to contribute? I.e support for other databases/ knowledge sources like elastic search?

petems 5y ago
Thanks, it's possible to contribute into https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails it's a ruby gem which powers motor admin app - support for new data sources and more data visualization options (cohort) are welcomed :)

bound008 5y ago

@petems do you have plans to attach a license to your component library? https://github.com/omohokcoj/view3 https://github.com/omohokcoj/view3

petems 5y ago
thanks will do, it's MIT either way.

jimkleiber 5y ago

I'm excited to try and yet can't seem to get it working. I followed the steps to install it on MacOS from the GitHub page and I'm thinking maybe I ran the curl command from the wrong directory, as when I try to run ./motor-admin, it gives two dlyd errors: 1) "lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow" 2) "Symbol not found: ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow" And it shows the "Referenced from:" being my current directory, somewhere in my Documents folder, and then "Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib" Any idea what might be causing the error? Thanks!

petems 5y ago
It looks like the binary doesn't work on mac M1 yet. You can try it in docker instead - also it's possible to deploy it on heroku for free.
- jimkleiber 5y ago
  Ahh, I think I may have the opposite problem: I'm on Mojave and I think I need a newer version of Xcode but can't update it because I'm still on Mojave :-) I'll try it in Docker, thank you!