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Asked: 2026-06-17T11:26:20+00:00

I know of 2 ways to implement admins: add admin role flag to the

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I know of 2 ways to implement admins:

  1. add admin role flag to the user entity
  2. add a new admin entity

I don’t know if there are more ways of doing it

1. Does it matter in terms of admin usability? security?

2. which is easier to scale or maintain?

for a rails-specific (but not limited to) sub-question

Is using a premade admin services such as active_admin or adminium are worth it for the long run (heavy use application, not small sized), or would it just be better to make my own admin panel and incrementally add features as I need them?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer to that question depends on your needs for a particular project.

    Using the premade admin services makes life easier as what you can do is to customize the services by the help of ease that they provide and then use them in your application.

    In ActiveAdmin railscasts, there is a video about ActiveAdmin that shows that how it is very customizable. Apart from that there are comments by various people in the railscasts from their experience about its usage.

    This will clearly give you the idea in the right direction.

    There is also a very good article by batsov which explains the differences between RailsAdmin and ActiveAdmin.

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