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by pmontra 989 days ago
I second you on the admin and I'm sorry I forgot about it.

Rails has the optional ActiveAdmin gem but it has basically no automatic integration with the Rails app and it's not included. That means that any Django app has a basic admin and most Rails app don't have one.

To be fair, it's easy to hit the limits of those admins but by baking a user hierarchy in the main web app with a super user, you can use the standard web app for many administration tasks. If you can impersonate users (handy for debugging and you have all their data anyway) you can do a lot of things without an admin interface.