petems

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Motor Admin gem has been developed to replace the outdated ActiveAdmin/RailsAdmin/Blazer gems in your existing or future Rails app.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 customization/configuration Ruby APIs.

All adjustments in Motor Admin can be made directly in the UI via WYSIWYG interfaces.

This probably makes it the first no-code/low-code Rails open-source admin engine.

Would appreciate any feedback regarding the gem!

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 triggers them into localhost.

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.

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.

You're right - Motor Admin is Postgres specific (or DB specific since it works with Mysql and SQLserver as well).

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 alerts), unified UI optimized on mobile (instead of retool's more complex UI builder).

It directly connects to PostgreSQL database instance.

Yeah, Heroku free tier would be enough to deploy and run the app.

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 used to build complex admin UIs for internal users.