Forum: Ruby on Rails Fwd: Need suggestions for admin panel implementation

HI All,

I need to create the admin panel for my existing application where I 
need
data manipulation from existing models(CRUD operation) , but also
additional features should be support, like file conversions,S# upload 
and
some more custom features those are not related to models. I know Active
admin is on fire now but I would like to know whether it is good to go 
with
Active admin or to implement from scratch,  let me know your suggestion 
for
this.

Also I want to know what is the better approach to build the admin
interface I mean having separate application for admin with shared 
database
or single application for normal & admin users.

regards,
Loganathan
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