Rails 8 +importmap? +propshaft? +esbuild? +?? = PITA

[costa]

I'm always frustrated when something that should be straightforward for a novice takes hours and days for a pro.

I've just tried -- for many, many hours, with lots of workarounds and whatnot, to sort the setup with the latest and greatest Rails defaults. It did not work. I tried both using files from inside the Ruby gem -- and from inside the JS package, I tried pinning a lot explicitly, but nothing finally led to completion.

I really want a simplest guide updated for the latest version of Rails with this setup: importmap, propshaft and tailwind (so the main app runs on tailwind, and all the rails_admin's stuff is separately run with propshaft or whatever. Or you know, any configurations actually supported would be nice to have described.

Thank you for your work, sorry for my frustration.

[devpixde]

I really like rails_admin because it seems to me the most unintrusive way to add an admin tool to a rails app compared to other admin frameworks.

But I have nearly the exactly same problem: I have a modern Rails setup with esbuild, tailwind and propshaft and want to add rails_admin. Took me three days of my spare time to find a way and it is still not working properly, so kamal deployment fails for some reason.

I give it up for now and wait if someone else finds a solution....

[costa]

I'm decently experienced in Rails, I prefer rails_admin for its self-contained-ness, and I've just been spending a lot of time to arrive at a simple straightforward self-contained configuration with Rails 8 defaults (or also with other major options). So, some integration work is very much needed I guess.