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How does this compare to ActiveAdmin?

It's actually explained in the post. To sum it up, this seems to be less rigid and doesn't come with a lot of expectations about your project/structure, which is nice.

However, I still think it's better to design a custom solution tailored to your very individual needs.

I didn't feel like it brought up any of the changes they wanted that ActiveAdmin couldn't solve apart from the auth-solution.

When it comes to alter anything within the MVC stack, ActiveAdmin does offer a lot. Maybe I am missing something here?

I think the issue isn't so much that you can't do this stuff with ActiveAdmin, it's more that if you want to do custom stuff, you now have to go look up how to do it in activeadmin instead of relying on your Rails knowledge.

Well explained, now that you mention it it was in their post as well and... it's actually true.

Fair enough!

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