Active Admin¶ ↑

Active Admin is a framework for creating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

<img src=“http://travis-ci.org/gregbell/active_admin.png” />

Help / Support / Demo¶ ↑

• Documentation & Guides: activeadmin.info/documentation.html

• Mailing list: groups.google.com/group/activeadmin

• Bug reports: github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues

• RDoc: rubydoc.info/github/gregbell/active_admin/master/frames

• Live demo: demo.activeadmin.info/admin

• Website: www.activeadmin.info

Goals¶ ↑

1. Allow developers to quickly create gorgeous administration interfaces <strong>(Not Just CRUD)</strong>

2. Build a DSL for developers and an interface for businesses.

3. Ensure that developers can easily customize every nook and cranny of the interface.

4. Build common interfaces as shareable gems so that the entire community benefits.

Getting Started¶ ↑

Active Admin is released as a Ruby Gem. The gem is to be installed within a Ruby on Rails 3 application. To install, simply add the following to your Gemfile:

# Gemfile in Rails <= 3.1
gem 'activeadmin'

If you are using Rails >= 3.1, you must also include a beta version of MetaSearch and sass-rails:

# Gemfile in Rails >= 3.1
gem 'activeadmin'
gem 'sass-rails'

After updating your bundle, run the installer

$> rails generate active_admin:install

The installer creates an initializer used for configuring defaults used by Active Admin as well as a new folder at app/admin to put all your admin configurations.

Migrate your db and start the server:

$> rake db:migrate
$> rails server

Visit localhost:3000/admin and log in using:

• User: [email protected]

• Password: password

Voila! You’re on your brand new Active Admin dashboard.

To register your first model, run:

$> rails generate active_admin:resource [MyModelName]

This creates a file at app/admin/my_model_names.rb for configuring the resource. Refresh your web browser to see the interface.

Next Steps¶ ↑

The best place to get documentation is at activeadmin.info/documentation.html.

To view a sample Active Admin application, checkout demo.activeadmin.info

If you have any questions, please email the mailing list at groups.google.com/group/activeadmin

Tools Being Used¶ ↑

We believe strongly in not writing code unless we have to, so Active Admin is built using many other open source projects:

InheritedResources

Inherited Resources speeds up development by making your controllers inherit all restful actions so you just have to focus on what is important.

Formtastic

A DSL for semantically building amazing forms.

Devise

User authentication is done using Devise

Kaminari

Pagination for rails apps

Iconic Icons

Excellent SVG icon set designed by P.J. Onori: somerandomdude.com/projects/iconic

Roadmap & Issue Tracking¶ ↑

We are using the awesome Github issues! Please submit bugs or features to github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues

Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑

• Fork the project.

• Make a NEW TOPIC BRANCH, then make your feature addition or bug fix

• Add specs and cukes for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.

• Send a pull request.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Greg Bell, VersaPay Corporation. See LICENSE for details.