sferik/rails_admin — Issue #799: Please consider merging with active_admin
Author: ndbroadbent
Created: 2011-10-25 09:40:32+00:00
State: open

It seems to me that rails_admin and active_admin are 'competing' without any good reason. I think it would be great if both teams could work together and build something even better.

I'm not an expert in either project, but they certainly look like they do some of the same things.
I love how active_admin seems to give more flexibility for [the way data is displayed](http://demo.activeadmin.info/admin/products), but rails_admin has really awesome automatic forms and a great export feature. I personally prefer the filter sidebar on active_admin, but I like rails_admin's history and dashboard.
There might be some disagreements about the look-and-feel, but it would be great to be able to choose themes anyway.

So is there any reason why a merge can't be negotiated?
We could stop building the same stuff, and focus on features like choosing which columns are displayed, or merging records (which I'd personally like to build).

Cheers,
Nathan