Active Storage Dashboard: A Rails Engine for Managing Active Storage
2025-07-14
After 10 years of building Rails applications, the author found managing Active Storage data cumbersome. This led to the creation of Active Storage Dashboard, a mountable Rails engine providing a modern interface for monitoring and managing Active Storage. Features include real-time storage statistics, browsable interfaces, advanced filtering, direct download, orphaned file cleanup, and support for multiple databases and Rails versions. The article delves into the advantages of Rails engines and best practices for building robust engines, covering namespacing, configuration options, documentation, minimizing dependencies, extensibility, error handling, and security.
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