--- title: Stop Building Ugly Admin Panels: Why Avo is the Future... description: A comparison of Rails admin panel options that advocates for Avo as the modern alternative to ActiveAdmin and building from scratch. Avo lives inside your... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-ugly-admin-panels-why-avo-is-the-future-of-rails-admins-7my7uhydo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Building Ugly Admin Panels: Why Avo is the Future of Rails Admins | daily.dev og:description: A comparison of Rails admin panel options that advocates for Avo as the modern alternative to ActiveAdmin and building from scratch. Avo lives inside your... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-building-ugly-admin-panels-why-avo-is-the-future-of-rails-admins-7my7uhydo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7mY7uhydO.png og:image:alt: Stop Building Ugly Admin Panels: Why Avo is the Future of Rails Admins og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Building Ugly Admin Panels: Why Avo is the Future of Rails Admins **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comparison of Rails admin panel options that advocates for Avo as the modern alternative to ActiveAdmin and building from scratch. Avo lives inside your Rails app, uses standard Ruby classes for resource configuration, and provides a Tailwind-based UI with dark mode out of the box. Key features include Actions (custom buttons that run Ruby code), dashboards with charts, and native Pundit authorization integration. A free Community Edition covers most indie hacker needs, while Pro/Advanced tiers add maps, rich text, and RBAC menus. A code example shows how a single generator command and a resource file yields full CRUD with search, pagination, and associations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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