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As you well know administrate_me is our beloved plugin, and it’s about to reach its two years old (and one amazing year since we opensourced it). We never stop using it and I believe that’s the main reason why this plugin has grown that much this year.

With administrate_me, we’re able to build a production-ready backend in a couple of minutes. It simplifies almost any management task you need to build for a rails app, this way you can focus and put all your efforts into application’s frontend.

We’re almost done with administrate_me 2.0 version (I believe its release will be on or about December 18th), you can watch plugin’s progress on github (even you can push some patches).

For those who can’t wait til December 18th, here you have a little snapshot of administrate_me’s backend new look

We’re definately there! yay!

You probably have already heard of BORT, its a Base Rails Application that you can use to bootstrap your project. Believe me, you will save a few hours on each project using it and will be able to jump directly to the fun part.

We wanted to use it too, but most of our projects include administrate_me, so the best thing we could have done is to keep ourselves DRY and fork BORT to create a version including an installed and bootstraped administrate_me by default.

You can check out here our BORT version. The same setup instructions apply as if it were a regular BORT app.

As a plus, this includes an updated version of rspec-on-rails-matchers plugin, which is something that is also catching on on all of out projects lately.

Feel free to clone it, fork it and send all kind of patches and pull requests.

Have you met administrate_me? (hint: The README file show’s you how to setup a rails app using administrate_me from from scratch) It’s Insignia’s plugin to handle our backend in the most agile and efficient way. You can see a simple administrate_me screenshot to check out what it looks like.

So, the news are that in a few hacking sessions we managed to create some rpsec shared behaviours and matchers to help you test your controllers that use administrate_me.

On this files you can see the actual code of the specs, but most important, clear examples about how to use them:

administrate_me Shared Behaviours: You can use them to check that your controllers are fully functional. It comes in two flavors: ‘basic administrate_me’ and ‘basic administrate_me with parent’ to test child controllers.

administrate_me Matchers: For now you have just two matchers to check for the order set and the fields on which the search is allowed. There are more matchers to come.

Now you dont have excuse for not testing your controllers!