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> The best thing I think Rails still has is ActiveAdmin. Everything else, I really can take or leave. ActiveAdmin gets you off the ground very quickly, but is
by Tainnor 2y ago
> The best thing I think Rails still has is ActiveAdmin. Everything else, I really can take or leave.
ActiveAdmin gets you off the ground very quickly, but is also extremely inflexible (and, IIRC, poorly maintained). The last time I worked on an ActiveAdmin backend we had to use all sorts of weird hacks to build the interface the way our backoffice team needed it to be.
- RangerScience 2y agoAA is really just some wrapper and glue around some other tools… which aren’t super well documented either, but it definitely does mean that a) you can do weird/custom stuff, and that it’s a PITA to figure out how.