Avo Is a Framework for Creating Ruby on Rails Admin Panels
Running in Production
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Adrian Marin goes over building a custom Rails admin framework and gem. It's hosted on Heroku.
In this episode of Running in Production, Adrian Marin goes over building a
Ruby on Rails admin framework. It’s hosted on Heroku and has been available
since late 2020.
Adrian talks about building a Rails engine, using Stripe Checkout, building the
admin out with Hotwire Turbo, using View Component, creating a very automated
CI / CD pipeline to publish the gem and much more.
Topics Include
6:38 – Motivation for using Ruby on Rails
8:57 – The gem does phone home on a 1 hour interval
11:33 – The gem is using Hotwire Turbo but the product site is not
13:10 – Handling billing with Stripe’s Checkout page and a few Rails gems
16:43 – Publishing a Rails engine with its own assets
21:10 – Using Hotwire Turbo to build the admin dashboard
26:30 – What it was like migrating the app from Vue to Turbo
31:49 – Using View Component to help improve Rails partial performance
39:21 – Postgres is being used as the database and Redis for caching
42:30 – What is Hotjar, how it’s being used and extracting features
46:36 – From Notion to Linear to using GitHub to help manage the project
49:44 – Using Heroku for hosting and what delayed job is being used for
54:55 – What it’s like deploying the site and the gem
1:01:19 – Performing database backups? Maybe, maybe not!
1:03:57 – Best tips? Start building and launch as soon as possible
1:06:06 – The gem has an open source version that’s very usable
1:07:03 – Check out https://avohq.io/ and Adrian is on Twitter
Links
📄 References
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html
https://github.com/avo-hq/avo
https://world.hey.com/dhh/building-basecamp-4-405a347f
https://viewcomponent.org/
https://www.notion.so/
⚙️ Tech Stack
rails →
ruby →
bugsnag →
docker →
github-actions →
heroku →
hotjar →
mailgun →
open-source →
postgres →
redis →
stripe →
tailwindcss →
turbo →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://hotwire.dev/
https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
https://github.com/heartcombo/devise
https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job
https://github.com/excid3/prefixed_ids
https://github.com/github/view_component
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