Annotate is a very useful utility for annotating schema information in Rails models. The gem prepends (or appends, as per your configuration) a summarized information about the table schema in each model file as comments) – saving multiple roundtrips to the schema.rb file during coding.
Category: ActiveAdmin
Dealing with JSON data in Active Admin
While the default form fields of Active Admin are decent for most use cases, there are special cases like JSON data stored in relational databases, for which the built in controls might prove to be inadequate. This post explains how to handle the same.
Presenting SQL views through ActiveAdmin
SQL Views are a handy feature that allow us to save a query whose results are computed/collated dynamically whenever the view is requested. Because the abstraction provided by a view is semantically close to a table we can leverage ActiveRecord to interface with the view through a proxy model and use it to present the result set through ActiveAdmin interface.