Useful links for background reading

[adamakhtar]

Feel free to provide any links you think would be useful re: active_admin.

Tutorials, interviews etc

[adamakhtar]

@codereading/readers

[kathgironpe]

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/activeadmin
http://reverbhq.com/blog/2012/08/building-web-apps-with-activeadmin/
http://railscasts.com/episodes/284-active-admin

I have tested active_admin but have not used it for projects.

It's UI is really good but not satisfactory for me. I would not use it for my own projects.

[samnang]

I learn how to use it from the episode of RailsCasts and http://activeadmin.info/documentation.html.
I used it in one of my client project for internal admin interface for my client to login to manage some simple setup data that we don't have to create scaffold pages to manage them. I also used it as a lightweight report as well because client can filter data by search params or scopes.

[agis]

I've just found out this interesting post: http://reverbhq.com/blog/2012/08/building-web-apps-with-activeadmin/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email

I've used active_admin in one of my clients projects too, se he could manage posts, image galleries and some other simple resources with it.

[kathgironpe]

@samnang +1 for filters. I like the fact that it's a lot easier for development. There are really just specific features or improvements which I don't how to implement with active_admin like http://demo.activeadmin.info/admin/products?order=id_desc&page=1&scope=featured_products . If I want to display link to author below the book titles rather than let admin user click on show. I am curious on how to do that with active_admin. Perhaps we can all create some apps and learn this. In my case, it will be my first time!

[birula]

@bridgeutopia take a look at https://github.com/gregbell/demo.activeadmin.info/blob/master/app/admin/products.rb that's the source code of the exemple you mentioned.

[kathgironpe]

@birula Thanks! I've yet to determine if I can and should use it. I will come up with a list and when I'm stuck with an issue, I'd post here.

[chamnap]

This one is much more informative on rails engine, http://www.slideshare.net/AndyMaleh/rails-engine-patterns. Have a look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm94BsoMGik