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Introductory Tutorials

• GoRails episode (2016)
• ActiveAdmin: panel de administración para Ruby on Rails (2017)
• Easy Admin Interfaces with Active Admin in Rails (sample code) (2014)
• Getting Started with Rails... Adding ActiveAdmin and Markdown (2013)
• Railscasts #284 (2011)
• Rails5へのActiveAdminの導入 (2016)
• An Unofficial Active Admin Guide (2020)

Advanced Tutorials

• Rails 5 API + ActiveAdmin + Create React App (2017)

Documentation

• README file
• Official Documentation (master)
• YARD (master)

Example Apps

• Demo Store. A store application to use in tutorials.
• SprintApp. Project management and time tracking. Unmaintained since Oct. 2014, based on fork of ActiveAdmin 0.5.
• Active Invoices. Very simple invoicing application unmaintained since 2012 (blog post).

Projects using ActiveAdmin

Open Source on GitHub

• FeedBunch. A simple and elegant feed reader (source).
• Followr. Twitter follow & unfollow bot (source).
• Lale.Help. Online platform for organizing volunteers in refugee aid (source).
• Podemos. Spanish political volunteer organization.
• SumOfUs Campaigns. Online Campaign Platform (source).
• Super-IMAP alternative to Context.io. Helps you build email-driven applications (source).
• TimeOverflow. Time Bank, a form of alternative economics (source).

Engines (Gems)

• Community Engine. A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails (source).
• Goldencobra CMS
• Lentil. Rails Engine that supports the harvesting of images from Instagram (source).
• Pageflow. Tool for the easy creation of multimedia reports (source).

Search for more... Search on libraries.io

Other

• See Siftery and Stackshare

Help Forums

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 active.

Architecture, Design

• Active Admin: The admin framework for Rails (Greg Bell, 2011)
• Slides from lightning talk Greg Bell gave at RailsConf 2011.
• Building Web Apps with Active Admin (Philippe Creux, 2012)
• Mastering ActiveAdmin (Boris Staal, 2013) (source)
• UI Components in Rails Arbre? Cells? PORO+Docile.

Users, Authentication and Authorization

Devise

• How to Implement a Single User Model with Rails, ActiveAdmin, and Devise
• Create an ActiveAdmin account by Cloning a Devise User account
• Implementing Devise Single Sign On with ActiveAdmin
• Adding Two-Factor Authentication in ActiveAdmin using devise-two-factor gem.

OAuth

• Log in through OAuth providers
• Facebook authentication on ActiveAdmin
• Salesforce OAuth2 authentication with Active Admin

Other

• Tracking user logins and displaying results in ActiveAdmin
• Authorizing resources with CanCanCan

Layout

• How can I customize the active admin layout? Most active QA on StackOverflow.
• How to put sidebar / filters on top of the ActiveAdmin index list A simple CSS hack.

Index Pages, Filters and Scopes

• 4 steps to add auto complete in ActiveAdmin
• Excluding columns
• Customize ActiveAdmin Index Filters
• Custom Filters Using Ransacker In ActiveAdmin Interfaces
• ActiveAdmin Filters—Unlocking the Power of Ransack
• ActiveAdminでカスタムフィルターを実装する A filter that can be searched from the conditions of multiple columns.
• ActiveAdmin: Custom column and its filter
• How to filter IS NULL in ActiveAdmin
• Using ActiveRecord scopes with activeadmin
• Presenting SQL views through ActiveAdmin
• Make some column quick-editable on the index list page
• Quick add and quick edit on ActiveAdmin Using Fancybox to popup 'add' and 'edit' jQuery dialogs.
• Edit a collection of resources at once with Handsontable
• Toggle visibility of the sidebar
• Increase performance for index pagination count queries
• Showing a New Resource form underneath the index table

Resources

• ActiveAdmin list of registered pages and resources
• How to Handle Singletons in ActiveAdmin
• How to add has_one
• Define a resource inside an engine

Forms

• A Minimalist Guide to Customizing ActiveAdmin Forms
• Nested forms with polymorphic association in Active Admin Formtastic
• Adding forms to ActiveAdmin custom pages
• Formtastic without ActiveRecord
• Showing an uploaded image in the form
• Uploading Files
• Uploading Files Using Paperclip
• Deleting Paperclip Attachments with ActiveAdmin
• How to add Attachinary input in rails active admin Uses Attachinary
• Rails 3 Nested Models in one form using Formtastic and Cocoon gems
• ActiveAdmin vs Nested Models vs Formtastic vs Acts as Relation Using ActiveAdmin with multi-table inheritance (MTI)
• ActiveAdmin + dry-validation
• Using Fake inputs in Formtastic forms
• JSONB columns

Tables

• ActiveAdmin Tables
• ActiveAdmin simple_table A simple HTML table component in Arbre.
• Pagination on table_for inside sections and panels

Charts

• Adding Google Charts to your Active Admin Application uses Chartkick
• Custom activeadmin pages with charts

Third-party

Integrating with other gems

• Auditing via paper_trail (change history)

See also Plugins

Other Awesome Posts

• How To Add Active Admin to a Rails 5 API Application
• 8 Insanely Useful ActiveAdmin Customizations
• ActiveAdmin - Disable JSON/XML export
• Extending ActiveAdmin DSL macfanatic discusses acts_as_list
• How to Hide Your ActiveAdmin Path Random folder path for ActiveAdmin.
• Sharing code between ActiveAdmin resources
• Autocomplete Using ActiveAdmin and Rails 3, Including Has Many Associations and Polymorphic Models
• a quick javascript lightbox
• Add custom style for active admin boolean fields
• ActiveAdmin Form Field For Strongbox Encrypted Attribute
• Sortable lists with acts_as_list and ActiveAdmin
• jQuery Datatables + Active Admin
• Akita on Rails
• Customize default CSV export

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