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RailsAdmin
The right way of doing data administration

FOSDEM 2011
Bogdan Gaza

FOSDEM 2011 @hurrycane
Sunday, February 6, 2011

$ whoami

Student at Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania

Developer at MojoTech

RubySOC 2010 student

@hurrycane


Data administration is ________*

* 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
is using a plugin engine.
usually secure
fast
simple


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


RailsAdmin 1.0 in a few weeks.


RailsAdmin - conﬁguration DSL

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
config.model Team do
navigation do
visible false
end
end
end


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Thanks!


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