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Motor Admin gem has been developed to replace the outdated ActiveAdmin/RailsAdmin/Blazer gems in your existing or future Rails app.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

My mind was blown away when I saw the dynamic query editor for dashboards and how it can be appended to each resource. That was pretty neat.

I will definitely use this on my next project. Thanks for creating and sharing this.

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.

You should check Motor Admin open-source tool (I'm the creator of the tool): https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin

>Auto-generating the GUI from SQL schema, similar to the original Django Admin

Thats exactly how Motor Admin works :)

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.

You can run it on AWS EC2 or on any other Ubuntu server - the app is distributed as a single executable binary - so you basically need to connect to your AWS EC2 via SSH, download the binary and run it: https://docs.getmotoradmin.com/guide/#ubuntu

Thank you! great idea!

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