Features

Non Intrusive

• All the features provided by admin_data are totally non intrusive.
• No change is required anywhere in your application.
• No named_scope is created and hence no lingering named_scope in your application.
• Nothing is stored in session or in cookies.
• You don't need to store any file in public folder or anywhere else.
• No table is created.
• No migration to run.

Browse and Search

• Browse all records with pagination.
• Quick search across all records in a table. Quick searche goes through all columns that are of type either string or text.
• Advance search for each column of each of the table. Different options appear for different data types.
• For both quick search and advance search, result can be sorted in ascending or in descending order of any column.
• Browse migration records from schema_migrations table even though there is no corresponding model for this table.

Association Information

• For each individual record a link to all associated records is shown.
• Next to has_many association a count of number of associated records is shown.
• All the associated records are links so you can navigate from record to record.

Delete vs Destroy

• admin_data provides two ways of removing a record.
• Deleting a record means no callback will be invoked.
• Destroying a record means callbacks for that model will be invoked.

Miscellaneous features

• Admin_data supports namespaced models like Vehicle::Car .
• Plugin does not assume that all the tables have primary key as id. It respects the primary_key set in the model.
• RSS feed for all the models.