Active Admin vs Sequel: 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 Sequel? The database toolkit for Ruby. It is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby. It includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.

Active Admin belongs to "Ruby Utilities" category of the tech stack, while Sequel 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, Sequel provides the following key features:

• Provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for constructing SQL queries and table schemas.
• Supports advanced database features such as prepared statements, bound variables, stored procedures, savepoints, two-phase commit, transaction isolation, primary/replica configurations, and database sharding
• Includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records

Active Admin and Sequel are both open source tools. Active Admin with 8.59K GitHub stars and 3.04K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Sequel with 4.06K GitHub stars and 890 GitHub forks.