Airview

Airview is a mountable Rails engine for building an Airtable-like internal admin UI on top of a Rails application's own database.

It lets trusted internal users enable Rails models through the Airview setup UI, then browse records, filter and sort tables, save views, create records, edit cells, delete rows, and work with simple belongs_to references.

Airview does not authenticate users. Protect the mounted route in your host Rails app.

Add the gem to a Rails 7.1+ application:

bundle add airview

Run the installer and migrate:

bin/rails generate airview:install
bin/rails db:migrate

Mount the engine behind your app's authentication:

# config/routes.rb
authenticate :user, ->(user) { user.admin? } do
  mount Airview::Engine => "/airview"
end

Visit /airview/setup to configure resources. Airview discovers concrete host-app ActiveRecord models, pre-fills fields from the schema cache, hides sensitive-looking fields by default, and saves enabled resources in Airview-owned database tables.

Resource configuration is DB-managed. The initializer is reserved for future global settings.

Supported field types:

:string, :text, :integer, :float, :decimal, :boolean, :date, :datetime, :select, :belongs_to, :json

Only enabled resources and visible fields are shown. Creates, updates, and deletes go through ActiveRecord, so model validations and callbacks still apply.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt.

Run tests and linting:

bundle exec rake

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jacksonriso/airview. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

Everyone interacting in the Airview project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.