How to Use Active Admin Gem in Rails?

Active Admin is a framework for creating administration style interfaces. In this blog, I have shared how can you use active admin gem in rails easily.

FIrst and foremost, active admin is released as a Ruby Gem. This gem needs to be installed within a Ruby on Rails 3 application.

H2 - Steps to install and use active admin gem in your ruby on rails application

Step -1

To install, simply add the following to your gemfile:

# Gemfile

                         gem 'activeadmin'

Step 2

If you are using Rails 3.1, you must also include a beta version of MetaSearch and sass-rails:

# Gemfile in Rails >= 3.1

                          gem 'activeadmin'

                          gem 'sass-rails'

                          gem "meta_search", '>= 1.1.0.pre'

Step 3

After updating your bundle, run the installer

$> rails generate active_admin:install

This installer creates an initializer used for configuring defaults used by Active Admin as well as a new folder at app/admin to put all your admin configurations.

Step 4

Migrate your database and start the server using these commands:

       
        $> rake db:migrate

        $> rails server

Step 5

 Visit http://localhost:3000/admin  and log in using:

User: admin@example.com

Password: password

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