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A brief examination of some of the major Admin plugins for rails. Lipsiaadmin AutoAdmin ActiveScaffold Hobo Streamlined Lipsiadmin http://rails.lipsiasoft.com/wiki/lipsiadmin Google group Members: No group Live Demo: http://demoadmin.lipsiasoft.org/admin/ Sample Projects: None This admin framework mixes Ajax/JavaScript (library Ext 2.0 views) and old school HTML. The interface is presented in an application style reminiscent of Microsoft Outlook. Feature set http://extjs.com/ JavaScript library. Generator Admin code. Permissions support Live search Creation of menus within migrations. Weaknesses Community seems non-existent Sparse documentation AutoAdmin http://code.trebex.net/auto-admin Google group Members (http://groups.google.com/group/rails-autoadmin): ...

The Magically Appearing Admin Web developers using an MVC framework produce their websites playing with their models, views and controllers. Then by adding a few lines of magic an admin system appears which allows users to add/edit/delete/view/search their models. Examples: Django's Magic Admin (Also NewFormsAdmin - a branch of Django focused on making it easier to customise auto-admin) Ruby on rails Plugins: Streamlined framework - http://streamlinedframework.org/ Admin magic/config - outside of the ...