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Active Admin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications
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What is Active Admin?

Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
Active Admin is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Active Admin is an open source tool with 9.5K GitHub stars and 3.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Active Admin's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Active Admin?

Companies
16 companies reportedly use Active Admin in their tech stacks, including Ably Website, Takl, and Adtena.

Developers
44 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Active Admin.

Active Admin Integrations

Pros of Active Admin
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Customizable
3
Easy Integration
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Powerful Admin Portal

Active Admin's Features

  • Global Navigation
  • Scopes
  • Index Styles
  • API & Downloads
  • User Authentication
  • Action Items
  • Filters
  • Sidebar Sections

Active Admin Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Active Admin?
Devise
Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
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Active Admin's Followers
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