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rails cms admin area with access control - side note to my latex project

Recently I started to try out rails again, now the version 4. So far I am still very pleased, but have to admit that I was out of it for too long. A lot of things have to be "normal" to be able to get the creative flow going. At this stage I am researching for most of the time.

My goal is to use latex to put out pdf files. And the best solution is to create temporary folders through the ruby library and let it be controlled by rails session management. Because rails-latex seems to not fulfill my needs, a different purpose.

Anyway... I stumbled over the gem rails_admin and find it very useful. You just install it, and it will create a devise setup for you and in a jiffy your app has a admin backend through which you can control EVERYTHING.

Regarding the every day programmer creating apps for customers it may seem to be too much, but for me its perfect for I know what to do with the full access to all the models.

Definitely easier than setting up refineryCMS or some other cms.

Now I can program rails, create models, controllers, view etc. and hack my way into it via rails_admin or database access if necessary.

Bye.

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