I wrote a post detailing some issues I had with ActiveAdmin and Heroku with Rails 3.1.
It’s probably entirely out of date, but in case its of any use for you, it’s still archived here.
Just a brief note on getting the new ActiveAdmin gem working with Heroku under Rails 3.1 (on Thin and probably some other servers too)
ActiveAdmin looks like a really useful tool to avoid Scaffold-itis when it comes to admin interfacing in Rails apps. You install the gem and loosely define what models you’re using; and you can create simple effective dashboards.
It works easily on local testing, but when you deploy to production on Heroku (or locally with thin $ bundle exec rails server thin -e production the build will fail citing /Users/dave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/sass-rails-3.1.0/lib/sass/rails/railtie.rb:38:in `block in ': uninitialized constant Sass::Rails::SassTemplate (NameError)… or similar.
By default the SASS gem is defined within ‘assets’ in the Gemfile. Move the line
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', " ~> 3.1.0"
..
end
outside the assets group, and it will spin up without a problem. It seems the assets group is processed after other gems.
Solution found via this post: https://github.com/rails/sass-rails/issues/38
Great introductory ActiveAdmin tutorial at Railscasts
Now to actually build the dashboard…
POST UPDATED 2012-02-16
Other issues can be found here: https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues/474 — I was having issues with asset precompile interfering failing with ActiveAdmin (and I’ll admit, a single magic database number value within my codebase).
The solution to this issue was as benatkin pointed out, adding this within the ROUTES file tempers things:
break if ARGV.join.include? 'assets:precompile'
Not sure if it’s good practice but it gets around an annoying conflict with devise and activeadmin.
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