Active Admin vs Flyway: What are the differences?

Developers describe Active Admin as "The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications". Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration. On the other hand, Flyway is detailed as "Database Migrations Made Easy". Easy to setup, simple to master. Flyway lets you regain control of your database migrations with pleasure and plain sql. Solves only one problem and solves it well. Flyway migrates your database, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.

Active Admin and Flyway can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.

Some of the features offered by Active Admin are:

• Global Navigation
• Scopes
• Index Styles

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

• Supported databases: Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Azure, DB2, DB2 z/OS, MySQL, MariaDB, Google Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Vertica, H2, Hsql, Derby, SQLite
• Supported build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant and SBT
• Works on: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Java and Android

"Customizable" is the primary reason why developers consider Active Admin over the competitors, whereas "Superb tool, easy to configure and use" was stated as the key factor in picking Flyway.

Active Admin and Flyway are both open source tools. It seems that Active Admin with 8.51K GitHub stars and 3.01K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flyway with 4.2K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Flyway has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Active Admin, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.