Super

Super is a zero* dependency admin framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

Its mission: to evade dependencies, to improve developer productivity and admin efficiency, to go where no one has gone before. Most of the alternatives I tried were either too limited or required a large and complicated DSL for configuration.

Super is built be powerful but to stay out of your way; it should be easier to maintain relative to other admin frameworks. Because of its lack of dependencies, for example, it'll stay out of your way when you have to upgrade your application's Rails version or any other gem.

* Super depends on Rails

Features

• Sprockets and Webpacker compatibility
  • Note: Webpacker support depends on one additional NPM package for parsing ERB
• Pagination
• Configurable forms (new and edit forms)
• Configurable display (index and show tables)
• Supports Rails 5.0+, Ruby 2.3+
• Configurable without a DSL
• Looks reasonably nice and modern
• Pre-built frontend assets (doesn't require Sass, PostCSS, Babel, etc)
  • Vendored assets include
    • Stimulus JS
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Feather icons

Super was inspired in part by the admin frameworks ActiveAdmin and Administrate. If Super doesn't quite fit your requirements at this moment, one of those might meet your needs better.

Professional edition

Super Professional is a paid add-on and provides additional benefits:

• Feature: Filtering by column values
• Priority email support
• Supporting long term development of Super
• An LGPL exemption

It will be available soon. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its availability or for brief, occasional updates.

Demos

• Super Demo
  • Super Demo source
• Super Professional Demo

Usage

Creating new admin pages

$ bundle exec rails g super:resource Thing # check out the `--help` option!

The example above will create the appropriate admin controller. It generates a Controls class inside the controller as well; it's where most configuration lives. You generally won't need to edit the controller actions themselves.

In addition, you'll have to manually update your routes file. It'll probably look something like the following:

namespace :admin do
  resources :things
end

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "super"

And then execute:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rails g super:install # check out the `--help` option!

Super supports using Webpacker instead of Sprockets. Note though that you need to set up ERB templates under Webpacker. There are no other requirements or dependencies.

$ bundle exec rails webpacker:install:erb # if you haven't already
$ bundle exec rails g super:webpacker

Lastly, update your Super initializer

Super.configuration do |c|
  # ...
  c.asset_handler = Super::Assets.webpacker
end

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING

License

The gem is available under the terms of the GNU LGPLv3.