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Asked: 2026-05-31T00:44:07+00:00

I’ve been thinking of writing my own backend, because I feel active_admin might not

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I’ve been thinking of writing my own backend, because I feel active_admin might not support all the requirements.
I wanted to ask if Active_Admin supports any of these just to be sure:

  1. I have a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship between my ad model
    and tag model. In the new ad page I would like to have the form for
    the ads, as well as all available tags so the admin can choose which
    tags to associate with the ad. I was able to do that normally in my
    application, but can I do that with active_admin?

  2. Can I add custom buttons.. Like one to convert to PDF for example,
    or one to send an e-mail..

  3. Could I add some sort of before_filter, so the admin can only view a
    model, but not edit or delete it for example?

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have tried an implemented almost all robust gems for admin panels. I have also sweated over several hand-made ones.

    Active-Admin is very usability centred, but it is not configuration centred.

    As you rightly aniticipated, some of the more complex modifications can be tedious.

    In my experience, rails_admin is the best middle ground I could find.

    Take a look at it, it is highly functional, completely modular (made as a Rails 3 Engine) and simpler to modify.

    If you can live without some details when customizing this is definitely the way to go. However, if you need to have everything just right, then there is not substitute for hand-made.

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