On 18/03/2011 03:43, Hernan Astudillo wrote:
> Don't know why rails_admin is more popular since isn't as powerful as
> AS. Might be that veeery old www.activescaffold.com
> <http://www.activescaffold.com>?


I put in my 2p on the reasons in another post, but I think it's mainly

a) that old .com website which makes the project feel a bit dead

b) lack of regular advocacy (blog posts, release announcements) that hit
the rails community (after all this is why you know about rails_admin...)

c) mailing list which requires manual verification of new users (it was
added to stop large amounts of spam which were coming through - perhaps
there is a compromise solution though?)

I think all of these are fixable though.  As you say AS is a very stable
chunk of code and largely I think we are in maintenance mode.  I would
like to see some improvements in some key internals to make it thread
capable (no globals) and also to streamline the way we generate the
templates to reduce memory usage (causes GC thrashing on my performance
profiling), but largely I see new features being implemented through
plugins and the core code becoming more plugin friendly as a result...

I really hope we can hook Volker in to continue to maintain his rails3
branch, but under the AS repo rather than his own.  I also don't want to
chase him away since he's obviously only got limited time and faith in
the continuation of this project?

Fingers crossed.  Here's hoping

Cheers

Ed W

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