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Active Admin vs dBase: What are the differences?

What is Active Admin? The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications. Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.

What is dBase? A microcomputer database management system (DBMS) that runs on a Windows platform. It is a leading provider of business intelligence software products and data management tools. It includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language that ties all of these components together.

Active Admin belongs to "Ruby Utilities" category of the tech stack, while dBase can be primarily classified under "Database Tools".

Some of the features offered by Active Admin are:

  • Global Navigation
  • Scopes
  • Index Styles

On the other hand, dBase provides the following key features:

  • Middleware applications
  • Web apps hosted on Windows servers
  • Windows rich client applications.

Active Admin and dBase are both open source tools. Active Admin with 8.59K GitHub stars and 3.04K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than dBase with 20 GitHub stars and 14 GitHub forks.

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    What is Active Admin?

    Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.

    What is dBase?

    It is a leading provider of business intelligence software products and data management tools. It includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language that ties all of these components together.

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