Active Admin for Rails Developers

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

This is a significant fork of the original Active Admin project starting in 2018 with v1.3.1 and abandoning v2.0.0.alpha started one year earlier.

This fork aims to make it simpler and more Rails-like without dropping the rich functionality that made Active Admin a leading choice for a decade. See CHANGELOG for more details.

Active Admin is open source software, free as in puppy. As of writing this software is in production with at least one mid-size business, but Varyonic has no plans to provide commercial support - let us know if you do.

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Goals

  1. Enable developers to quickly create good-looking administration interfaces.
  2. Follow Rails conventions that make the framework easy to understand and customize.

Getting started

  • Check out the docs.
  • Try the live demo.
  • The wiki includes links to tutorials, articles and sample projects.

Need help?

Please use StackOverflow for help requests and how-to questions.

Please open GitHub issues for bugs and enhancements only, not general help requests. Please search previous issues (and Google and StackOverflow) before creating a new issue.

Google Groups, IRC #activeadmin and Gitter are not actively monitored.

Want to contribute?

The contributing guide is a good place to start. If you have questions, feel free to ask.

Dependencies

We try not to reinvent the wheel, so Active Admin is built with other open source projects:

Tool Description
Arbo HTML Views in Ruby.
Devise Powerful, extensible user authentication
Formtastic A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup
Inherited Resources Simplifies controllers with pre-built RESTful controller actions
Kaminari Elegant pagination for any sort of collection
Ransack Provides a simple search API to query your data