Active Admin for Rails Developers
Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
This is a significant fork of the original Active Admin project starting in 2018 with v1.3.1 and abandoning v2.0.0.alpha started one year earlier.
This fork aims to make it simpler and more Rails-like without dropping the rich functionality that made Active Admin a leading choice for a decade. See CHANGELOG for more details.
Active Admin is open source software, free as in puppy. As of writing this software is in production with at least one mid-size business, but Varyonic has no plans to provide commercial support - let us know if you do.
Goals
- Enable developers to quickly create good-looking administration interfaces.
- Follow Rails conventions that make the framework easy to understand and customize.
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 |
|---|---|
| Arbo | HTML Views in Ruby. |
| 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 |