Hands-on Test-Driven Development: Using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and RSpec

© Greg Donald 2024

G. DonaldHands-on Test-Driven Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9748-3_13

13. Administration

Greg Donald¹  

(1)

Clarksville, TN, USA

 

In this chapter, we will develop an administrative interface for our blog’s application data. Everything we’ve built so far will be given the usual CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) we’d expect to have available. We will save a lot of time by leveraging Active Admin to create these interfaces.

Adding Active Admin

Active Admin is a gem that provides a framework for creating administrative interfaces for Rails applications. It is a very powerful tool that can be implemented simply and quickly, but can also be customized to a great degree.

Adding the Gem

The first step is to ...