Add Support for other ORMs

[fbjork]

First of all great job on active_admin! Impressive and really easy to get up and running.

Any plans to support other ORMs like Mongoid?

[gregbell]

Yes this is definitely something on our Roadmap. So we've got a few requests for Mongoid. Any other specific ORMs for "official" support?

[jc00ke]

First, thanks for the gem @gregbell!

+1 for Mongoid so I can use active_admin on my current project.

[pusewicz]

How about using something more abstract for db support?

[gregbell]

Yes agreed. We'll have to abstract the concept of data stores and data access. I'm just trying to get a sense for which ORMs people are interested in "Out of the Box".

[jc00ke]

Maybe ianwhite/orm_adapter could help in this? I believe it's what devise
uses under the hood.

[kpsteig]

+1 for Mongoid. That'd be a big help for me.

[gregbell]

@jc00ke Thanks for the suggestion. This seems like a great starting point.

[luma]

Datamapper support would be awesome too.

[pusewicz]

Redis and Riak for me

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Yes agreed. We'll have to abstract the concept of data stores and data access. I'm just trying to get a sense for which ORMs people are interested in "Out of the Box".

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#26 (comment)

[PabloC]

+1 for mongoid support

[apardo]

+1 for Mongoid support

[rurounijones]

I think (and I might be open to flame-bait here) that the most widely used NoSQL database for primary datastore for apps is mongodb. As for the ODM my impression is that Mongoid seems to be the more popular one. Therefore I would say that Mongoid would be head on the NoSQL list.

Maybe github needs polls ;)

[phosphene]

+1 for mongoid!

[drewda]

Over in RailsAdmin land, they're considering using either OrmAdapter or Veneer in order to support a wider range of options.

[jmcopeland]

+1 for Mongoid

[cblavier]

+1 mongoid

[jacobwgillespie]

+1 for Mongoid

[lapluviosilla]

Yes, this would be so awesome. +1

[brainopia]

If you want a poll, then I'd definitely vote for mongoid :)

[juniovitorino]

+1 for mongoid.

[jeremyruppel]

Second @drewda's OrmAdapter suggestion, especially since it's already a dependency of devise.

[kmamykin]

+1 for mongoid

[stratequip]

+1 for mongoid

[nevir]

Also interested in this (for DataMapper).

From a quick look into taking a stab at it, ORM adapter probably needs to be extended to be aware of more data (types of columns, being able to enumerate assocations on a model). Also, InheritedResource is pretty coupled to ActiveRecord and its finders would probably need to be overridden (and/or ORM adapter also needs to abstract out the ability to query on collections).

Veneer is probably a better starting point, currently, since it has support for introspecting the associations on a model. https://github.com/kaapa/veneer/commits/properties

[damrbaby]

+1 mongoid!

[rbq]

+1 for DataMapper

[oleksify]

+1 mongoid

[aubergene]

+1 mongoid

[steveklabnik]

Why not just do it via ActiveModel?

[docwhat]

+1 ActiveModel

[seanlinsley]

Speaking of time, if anyone wants their ORM of choice supported and is willing to spend some time pair programming with me, let me know!

[seanlinsley]

anyone ⁉️

[elia]

@daxter I'd love to do that, especially porting stuff from activeadmin-mongoid, but sadly have no time these days

[spockz]

I would've liked to join you, however, I'm currently not on a Ruby/Rails project and my time is needed elsewhere. So, sadly, I cannot help.

[rottmanj]

@daxter

I have a large amount of free time and I have a few other people who would be willing to help with getting ActiveResource working with AA

[seanlinsley]

@elia & @spockz, no worries :)

@rottmanj, great! Except, what do you mean by ActiveResource? It's our reliance on ActiveRecord that's the problem.

[rottmanj]

@daxter

I am referring g to adding activeresource support within active admin.

There was a request for this in #39

[seanlinsley]

I still don't know what you mean by that. Could you elaborate?

[rottmanj]

@daxter

Right now you can not use a model that inherits from active resource as a resource with in active admin.

[redrick]

How are you guys ( @rottmanj ) on the ActiveResource with AA? It would suit my needs perfectly :) +1

[tsyber1an]

+1 mongoid

[seanlinsley]

+1's on this only help to make myself and other maintainers more stressed about this topic. Please either help or donate.

[candreoliveira]

+1 mongoid.... fast fast

[seanlinsley]

@candreoliveira did you not see my comment above? You can help by donating time or money.

[usmanarif]

+1 for Riak with Ripple. As I didn't get any working Activeadmin in Riak based application.

[tzmgit]

+1 mongoid

[mayatskiy]

+1 mongoid

[Seaborg]

+1 mongoid

[sanalpencere]

+1 mongoid

[dsylla]

+1 mongoid

[dmitrypol]

+1 mongoid

[flaviomori]

+1 mongoid

[juni0r]

+1 for Mongoid

[mmenafra]

+1 mongo id
+1 redis

gogogogo

[vekozlov]

+1 mongo id

[seanlinsley]

Go to #2714 to test Mongoid integration instead of 👍ing this ticket.