petems

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by petems 4y ago
Hi HN! Motor Admin gem has been developed to replace the outdated ActiveAdmin/RailsAdmin/Blazer gems in your existing or future Rails app. Unlike other Rails admin gems, Motor Admin doesn't use DSL or any other type of custom
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Show HN: Motor Admin Rails – Low-Code Admin Panel Gem(getmotoradmin.com)
6 points by petems 4y ago|3 comments
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by petems 4y ago
The tool provides a unique https endpoint to accept webhook requests. And then it retranslates them in realtime into localhost using your the node.js engine which powers VS Code extensions - node.js from VS Code grabs requests info and trig
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by petems 4y ago
This tool could be a better alternative to Ngrok/Localtunnel to relay requests to localhost but with a convenient GUI. It's free and the source code is published on GitHub. Also it's a charityware.
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Show HN: Webhooks development relay with VS Code extension(reliablewebhook.com)
4 points by petems 4y ago|3 comments
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by petems 5y ago
You should check Motor Admin open-source tool (I'm the creator of the tool): https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin >Auto-generating the GUI from SQL schema, similar to the original Django Admin Thats exact
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by petems 5y ago
Please feel free to open issue on Github if you face some difficulties or find some bugs/errors - hopefully those issues can be easily resolved.
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by petems 5y ago
You're right - Motor Admin is Postgres specific (or DB specific since it works with Mysql and SQLserver as well).
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by petems 5y ago
Motor Admin uses PG instead of Supabase API for better performance, ease of use and enhanced features. It has several advantages comparing to Retool like simple self-hosting option, CRUD UI out of the box, periodical data reports (aka alert
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by petems 5y ago
It directly connects to PostgreSQL database instance.
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by petems 5y ago
You can run it on AWS EC2 or on any other Ubuntu server - the app is distributed as a single executable binary - so you basically need to connect to your AWS EC2 via SSH, download the binary and run it: https://docs.getmotoradmin
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by petems 5y ago
Yeah, Heroku free tier would be enough to deploy and run the app.
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by petems 5y ago
The latest release of Motor Admin includes automatic DB schema reload feature. So now all change in Supabase schema are automatically applied to the Motor Admin panel. It means that Motor Admin now works perfectly with Supabase and can be
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Show HN: Open-source admin panel for Supabase(getmotoradmin.com)
97 points by petems 5y ago|25 comments
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by petems 5y ago
I think the coolest thing about Rails is actually the great amount of high quality Ruby gems for Rails. For instance, you can bootstrap a powerful Admin panel for your Rails project in no time with https://github.com/motor-a
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by petems 5y ago
SQL Server support has been added in the newest release. You can learn about how to upgrade to the latest version here: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin/releases/tag/late...
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by petems 5y ago
There are many open-source no-code tools so you can gain full control over your data/application with them as well as contribute into the source code. For instance, you can deploy an admin panel with https://www.getmotoradmi
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by petems 5y ago
Thanks!
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by petems 5y ago
It looks like the binary doesn't work on mac M1 yet. You can try it in docker instead - also it's possible to deploy it on heroku for free.
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by petems 5y ago
For custom forms and actions everything should be handled on the backend API including the DB changes.
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by petems 5y ago
Binaries are build with https://github.com/motor-admin/ruby-packer - they do not require docker - this repo contains all instructions in order to pack a binary.
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by petems 5y ago
https://github.com/motor-admin/ruby-packer - had to create a fork because the upstream repo is not maintained anymore.
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by petems 5y ago
Thanks, proper documentation will come really soon. All configurations are stored in motor.yml file which is automatically generated in root directory. There might be two ways handling configurations: 1. Use git to create commits with new c
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by petems 5y ago
It's possible to override default CRUD with custom actions/forms and so all additional data processing will be handled on the product back end API side. So let's say to want to add user to some LDAP directory once the user is
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by petems 5y ago
Currently it's not possible to use REST backend - direct database connection is required for motor admin to build internal rest json-api on top of the database to power the admin UI. My concern is that with REST backend it would becom
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by petems 5y ago
Thanks! Feel free to ask any questions via Github issues or in Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mFFJKSTgw3
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by petems 5y ago
Personally, I think that Graphql is overcomplicated and Facebook marketing efforts did a pretty good job for its adoption by developers and companies. The example you mentioned can be easily implemented in Motor Admin via SQL queries or adm
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by petems 5y ago
There is a ruby gem for rails projects: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails It's hard to say how difficult it could be but some companies already migrated from activeadmin to motor admin gem for their
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by petems 5y ago
The question is - do you actually need to run javascript to build an admin interface for your company? With Motor Admin you don't need to - you can achieve almost everything AppSmith/Retool does with simpler configurations using t
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by petems 5y ago
Thanks that's a good point. It requires to connect to the database (postgresql or mysql) and the tool automatically build an admin UI on top of the existing data. You can try it yourself locally on macOS, Ubuntu or in docker if you&#x2

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