Admin interfaces

In Django and Rails

Types of interfaces

• End user ones (Shiniest ones)
• Admin user ones (For configuration)
• Support / Monitor 
• API (For developers)

Which of these interfaces can be generated ?

Enter admin interfaces

• They are CRUD in nature
• Generated, not coded
• Usually divided into "report" and "form" interfaces

What I compare them by:

• What comes out of the box
• What comes from plugins
• Configuration Functionality
• Configuration Apperance
• Can reports be exported
• Permission support

What I don't compare them by:

• Ease of set up
• Performance

Django

• Forms out of the box
• Reports from plugins
• User/Groups support out of the box
• Export as
• Configuration Functionality
• Configuration Apperance

Django

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">Polls Administration</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

You can freely change the templates: 

Django

Descriptors for the fields:

class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None,               {'fields': ['question_text']}),
        ('Date information', {'fields': ['pub_date'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),
    ]
    inlines = [ChoiceInline]

admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin)

RoR

• Nothing out of the box
• Reports and forms from plugins
• Use/Groups support from plugins

Active Admin

  <%= f.inputs :name => "Author", :for => :author do |author_form| %>
      <%= author_form.input :first_name %>
      <%= author_form.input :last_name %>
    <% end %>

RoR templating plugin

ActiveAdmin.register Author do
  show do
    panel "Table of Contents" do
      table_for book.chapters do
        column :first_name
        column :last_name
      end
    end
    active_admin_comments
  end

Templating:

Active Admin

  <%= f.inputs :name => "Author", :for => :author do |author_form| %>
      <%= author_form.input :first_name %>
      <%= author_form.input :last_name %>
    <% end %>

RoR templating plugin

ActiveAdmin.register Author do
  show do
    panel "Table of Contents" do
      table_for book.chapters do
        column :first_name
        column :last_name
      end
    end
    active_admin_comments
  end

Templating:

Conclusions

• In either you can get the same results
• In general they are very easy to use
• So, use them!

External links

• https://www.djangopackages.com/packages/p/django-report-builder/
  
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Questions?