The difference between Avo and Rails starter kits

I often get the question, "How is Avo different from other starter kits?". And the simple answer is that it provides a different function. Avo helps the developer build their application's business side using configuration rather than regular logic code. When I say business-side, I mean the actual part that provides the unique value to their customers.

Avo Survey 2022

I think we did well in 2022 in support and features, and we could work more on our documentation. But, all in all, you mostly believe this product brings you value, and you like being a part of its journey.

How to bundle assets in a Rails engine

Load, parse, compile, and serve assets efficiently in a Rails Engine.

How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 3

Sure, an agency’s success is just directly proportional with how well their employees and collaborators are treated, but let’s not forget the primary source of income that grants that success: Customer satisfaction

How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 2

Programmers are very sought after. Especially for such frameworks as Ruby on Rails. In order for an agency to secure a solid web development team, they need to think about more than material incentives.

Launch that bottom drawer project

Having launched and failed is better than not having launched at all

Add target and other attributes to elements in Rails

Today we changed the design of our blog a bit and wanted to add photo credits to each post.

How Successful Agencies Ensure Dev Happiness PART 1

In any transaction, if the seller understands the customer’s needs, the latter is happy, thus the transaction is successful. This is also valid if the seller is formed of a team of people.

Safely extend a Ruby on Rails controller

With Avo, being a Ruby on Rails engine, we have a few controllers where we "chew up" the request, fetch the data, and display the results. Some users need to extend it.

New Rails asset compilation mental model

The mental model of the webpacker to js-bundling and tailwindcss wasn't adequately communicated when the new packages were first introduced.

Use multiple resources for the same model

Usually, an Avo Resource maps to one Rails model. So there will be a one-to-one relationship between them. But there will be scenarios where you'd like to create another resource for the same model.

Avo on Ruby Rogues podcast

I spent some time talking with Charles about the common pitfalls of admin panel gems.

Why Successful Startups Use MVPs

Successful startups use MVPs because they understand the importance of cost and time optimization. Platforms that optimize workflow and budget efficiency by 10x should be at the front of your toolbelt.

Front page of Hacker News, 2nd product of the day on Product Hunt and featured in one of the biggest Ruby newsletters

Avo had a crazy marketing week 🎉 The biggest public launches yet on the major platforms for this niche.

Avo 2.8 - Stimulus JS integration

Avo 2.8 with Stimulus JS integration, enabled ranges in all cards, scope out global search, and much much more

Avo 2.3

The menu editor landed in this release

Auto re-load Rails initializers (and other files) in development

This auto-reloading technique makes the development experience so much better!

Avo 2.0

Avo 2.0 is here with a mobile-ready UI, dashboards and a free and easy upgrade path from 1.0

Dynamically re-use & lazy-load pages using Hotwire

How we use the power of Hotwire with Avo to lazy-load the common pages.

Associations fixes and some maintenance

We fixed some association fields and general improvements all-round

Update your partials, a few bugfixes, and quality-of-life improvements

New target on NavigationLinkComponent, moved the link into the `_logo` partial and a few more improvements

Dynamic belongs to search and is_audio support

This week's 1.21.0 release brings on a most requested feature, dynamic search for BelongsTo associations. You can now search your models using fuzzy search and display rich data for each record.

Advanced authorization rules for associations, resource description, better support for STI and edge-cases models

Another big release today that brings a few features, fixes some compatibility edge-cases, and improves the general development experience.

More data in blocks, loading spinners, failed fram states and a bunch more

Pretty huge release this week. We crammed quite a few features in, fixed many bugs reported by you guys in the past week, and refactored some stale code.

basetool.io

We have exciting news to share. Avo has a new big brother, basetool.io.

Standalone actions

This release brings standalone actions and a lot of bugfixes

Polymorphic belongs to & computed select options

The select field has computed options, and the belongs_to association can be polymorphic now.

Global and resource search

Quickly run a search through one or more resources at once.

Custom fields & Trix attachments in the 🏠 house

This release brings custom fields, progress field, Trix attachments and a few improvements and bugfixes.

KeyValue field is back

KeyValue field is back. YAML lang added to the Code field. Removed Webpacker as a dependency in the testing environment

Bring your own asset pipeline & others in v1.3

Bring your own asset pipeline fix breadcrumbs and some new languages

Breadcrumbs & page titles

We all like a bit more context

Custom tools land in Avo

Add your own custom tools to Avo

Community license free for commercial projects

You should be able to test Avo in your commercial projects.

Avo v1.0 💪 🎉

Since DHH launched Hotwire back in December, we knew Avo should use it. We could see all the advantages of going full Hotwire & Rails.