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

RailsAdminThe right way of doing data administration

Bogdan GazaRubyAndRails 2010

RubyAndRails 2010 @hurrycane

Thursday, October 21, 2010


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Student at Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania

Freelance web developer

RubySOC 2010 student

@hurrycane

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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.


not very simple

definitely NOT fast

prone to errors


Other use CMSs


simple but not flexibleNOT fast

usually secure


The Rails way of doing it using a plugin engine.


simple

fast

usually secure



And the choices are:


lipsiaAdmin


www.lipsiadmin.com

ExtJS | permissions | Rails 2.x


http://www.lipsiadmin.com



ActiveScaffold

http://www.activescaffold.com/

Embed-able | Third-Party-Plugins | Rails 2.x





Hobo

http://hobocentral.net/

WebAppBuilder | Permissions | Rails 3.x





RailsAdminIntroducing

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





RubySOC 2010 Project

mentorsErik 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



require 'rails_admin/abstract_model'

module RailsAdmin class ApplicationController < ::ApplicationController

endend

Basic Enginescontrollers



Basic Engines

module RailsAdmin class History < ActiveRecord::Base

endend

models


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" ... endend


Basic Enginesroutes

For more info checkout the mountable apps RubySOC project.



RailsAdmin

C Create newR ShowU Easily UpdateD Safely Delete

} Your Data

Automatic form validation

Authentication (using Devise)

Use Action History (per row)

Multi-column-search



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

$ rails generate rails_admin:install_adminAlso run:


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 theend of the year.



QAWhy

Devise? Does it need to

have authentication?

Configuration? Permissions



Configuration DSLexperimental

Thanks to kappa (Petteri Kääpä)!

http://gist.github.com/638153




Thanks!



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