RailsAdmin - the right way of doing data administration with Rails 3

RailsAdmin
The right way of doing data administration

RubyAndRails 2010
Bogdan Gaza

RubyAndRails 2010 @hurrycane
Thursday, October 21, 2010

$
whoami
Student at Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania

Freelance web developer

RubySOC 2010 student

bogdan.gaza@info.uaic.ro

@hurrycane


Data administration is ________*
SPEAK UP!

* talking in the context of a web app

...
the
way
you
organize
and
control
your
data


Data administration means the admin panel.


HOW?
Both
simple,
secure
and
fast


Most people write custom
admin panels.

prone
to
errors
deﬁnitely
NOT
fast
not
very
simple


Other use CMSs

usually
secure
NOT
fast
simple
but
not
ﬂexible


The Rails way of doing it
using a plugin engine.
usually
secure
fast
simple


And the choices are:


lipsiaAdmin

ExtJS | permissions | Rails 2.x
www.lipsiadmin.com


ActiveScaffold

Embed-able | Third-Party-Plugins | Rails 2.x
http://www.activescaffold.com/


Hobo

WebAppBuilder | Permissions | Rails 3.x
http://hobocentral.net/


Introducing

RailsAdmin

http://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/


RubySOC
2010
Project
mentors
Erik Michaels-Ober,
Yehuda Katz,
Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas,
Luke van der Hoeven and
Rein Henrichs.


Began
as
Erik’s
MerbAdmin

and
then
got
ported
to

Rails
3


RailsAdmin
is
a
Rails
Engine


Basic Engines
controllers

require 'rails_admin/abstract_model'

module RailsAdmin
class ApplicationController < ::ApplicationController

end
end


Basic Engines
models

module RailsAdmin
class History < ActiveRecord::Base

end
end


Basic Engines
routes

Rails.application.routes.draw do

    # Routes for rails_admin controller
    controller "main" do
      match "/", :to => :index, :as => "dashboard"
      match "/:model_name", :to => :list, :as => "list"
      ...
    end
end

For more info checkout the mountable apps RubySOC project.


RailsAdmin

}
C Create new
R Show
U Easily Update
Your
Data
D Safely Delete

Automatic form validation
Authentication (using Devise)

Multi-column-search
Use Action History (per row)


RailsAdmin
-‐
simple
to
install

Add in your Gemﬁle
gem 'devise' # Devise must be required before RailsAdmin
gem 'rails_admin', :git => 'git://github.com/sferik/rails_admin.git'

Run
$ bundle update

Also run:
$ rails generate rails_admin:install_admin


With
Rails
3.1
Rails
Admin
will
be

mountable.
(Thanks
to
Piotr!)


Rails.application.routes.draw do
mount Admin::Engine => "/admin"
end


DEMO


Rails
3.1
and
RailsAdmin
1.0
around
the
end
of
the
year.


e? Do
vi s hav es it
De e au nee
hy the
ntic
d to
W

QA
atio
n?

Con
ﬁgur ns
atio i ssio
n? Perm


Conﬁguration DSL
experimental

Thanks to kappa (Petteri Kääpä)!

http://gist.github.com/638153


Thanks!


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