For internal ops tools, I’ve used https://retool.com/ to quickly build out apps on top of APIs and DBs. Worked well for me.
On Mon, Apr 6 2020 at 4:45 PM, Kevin English < [email protected] > wrote: > > I haven't used it for a while but IMO ActiveAdmin is best used for simple > admin tasks like "Add User", "change user's permissions". Once you go > beyond, you get into all kinds of customization and it almost becomes its > own framework. I'm sure there's some people on this mailing list that > ActiveAdmin PTSD. > > > > If you already have a good foundation of models in the codebase, you could > try to evolve away from Active Admin by building out basic Rails > controller/views. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > Best Regards, > > Kevin English > > > Work: http://kenglish.co > > Personal: http://english-su.com > > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 4:29 PM Mark Florian < [email protected] > > wrote: > > >> Hey Ruby pros! >> >> I met a lot of you during the March meet-up. I'm new to both San Diego and >> Ruby and I'm excited to get to know some of you better and strengthen my >> Ruby skills. I come from a strong Python/Django and .NET background and >> have dabbled quite a bit with React on the frontend. >> >> I've been helping a local company (RoR stack) build towards their product >> vision and I'm anticipating a lot of work will be in helping them automate >> some of the internal operations. We are currently using Active Admin to >> provide CRUD operations to everything with a little customization here and >> there (think links that modify bits of data). This is a marketplace >> company and there is a lot of operational work which requires the internal >> team to be able to look up information about clients to get a big picture >> and also take some action on client data - such things as approving a >> client, pause their subscription, view their historic billing, reset their >> password, the list goes on. Active Admin has worked but there is a lot of >> internal frustration using it as an operations tool. It's hard for me to >> imagine that we'll be able to sustain the operational growth using it as a >> tool but it's possible that I'm not using it to it's capacity. >> >> I'm wondering if any of you out there know of other, more flexible tools >> for running operations. As I see it, our options at this point are: >> - Stick with ActiveAdmin and double-down on customization >> - Find an alternative tool that has more flexibility >> - Build something from scratch >> >> These 3 paths all have their pros and cons but wanted to get some other >> opinion and thoughts about it. >> >> Appreciate any thoughts that you have! >> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SD Ruby" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] ( >> sdruby%[email protected] ). >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/089bb5c4-8bea-4ba8-a37b-aac7a377f8d9%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > > > > > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/CAGYxSR-JTkqwstDxiqF7N0VE%2B%2B-pA1f3ZAf%2B1V0XjLA4ACwXyg%40mail.gmail.com > ( > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/CAGYxSR-JTkqwstDxiqF7N0VE%2B%2B-pA1f3ZAf%2B1V0XjLA4ACwXyg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > ). > > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sdruby/k8p5oja3.9e6fd266-746d-421f-86bb-f1f495163eac%40we.are.superhuman.com.
