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RailsAdmin
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RailsAdmin

#146in Databases
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What is RailsAdmin?

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.

RailsAdmin is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.

Key Features

CRUD any data with easeCustom actionsAutomatic form validationSearch and filteringExport data to CSV/JSON/XMLAuthentication (via Devise or other)Authorization (via Cancan)User action history (via PaperTrail)Supported ORMs: ActiveRecord, Mongoid

RailsAdmin Pros & Cons

Pros of RailsAdmin

  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Easy implementation
  • ✓No configuration required
  • ✓Tolerable UI (default Bootstrap)
  • ✓Export data to CSV
  • ✓Export to JSON
  • ✓Free
  • ✓Search and filtering

Cons of RailsAdmin

  • ✗Not easy to customize

RailsAdmin Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to RailsAdmin?

Slick

Slick

It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.

Spring Data

Spring Data

It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.

DataGrip

DataGrip

A cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases.

DBeaver

DBeaver

It is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.

dbt

dbt

dbt is a transformation workflow that lets teams deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.

DB

DB

With DB you can very easily save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line. It supports connecting to different database servers (for example a local development server and a staging or production server) and allows you to load a database dump from one environment into another environment.

RailsAdmin Integrations

Rails are some of the popular tools that integrate with RailsAdmin. Here's a list of all 1 tools that integrate with RailsAdmin.

Rails
Rails

RailsAdmin Discussions

Discover why developers choose RailsAdmin. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 1 of 2 discussions.

Yonas Beshawred
Yonas Beshawred

CEO at StackShare

Mar 30, 2015

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So we started out with a service called Adminium, it was really useful. But when we hit the table limit, we realized we were paying for something we could easily get for free. My friend Cyrus suggested RailsAdmin, so we made the switch. I like RailsAdmin because almost everything works without any configuration. It’s basically a UI for your PG db. We use it to debug issues and update content. RailsAdmin

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