Active Admin
Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
State of the project
1.0.0.pre5 is the last release to support Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.0 or earlier. It is provided to help with upgrades to Rails 4 only.
1.0.0.pre5 has support for Rails 5. The following Gemfile addition may be needed:
gem 'inherited_resources', '~> 1.7'1.0.0 will drop support for Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.0 or earlier.
Goals
- Enable developers to quickly create good-looking administration interfaces.
- Build a DSL for developers and an interface for businesses.
- Ensure that developers can easily customize every nook and cranny.
Getting started
- Check out the docs!
- Try the live demo
- The wiki includes links to tutorials, articles and sample projects.
Need help?
Please use StackOverflow for help requests and how-to questions.
Please open GitHub issues for bugs and enhancements only, not general help requests. Please search previous issues (and Google and StackOverflow) before creating a new issue.
Google Groups, IRC #activeadmin and Gitter are not actively monitored.
Want to contribute?
The contributing guide is a good place to start. If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Dependencies
We try not to reinvent the wheel, so Active Admin is built with other open source projects:
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Arbre | Ruby -> HTML, just like that. |
| Devise | Powerful, extensible user authentication |
| Formtastic | A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup |
| Inherited Resources | Simplifies controllers with pre-built RESTful controller actions |
| Kaminari | Elegant pagination for any sort of collection |
| Ransack | Provides a simple search API to query your data |