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Certainly ActiveAdmin has given me a share of headaches as I built my website. That being said - it works, and I'm familiar with it(and Arbre) now. How do you plan to get established sites like mine to switch to Upmin with such a high upfront cost(namely, reconfiguring Upmin to have all the same functionality I bled for for ActiveAdmin?) Any kind of migration plan?

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If you already have active admin setup with a lot of things built on it, I wouldn't suggest changing it until you needed to add new stuff, or it was falling short somewhere for you. No point wasting the dev time if it works.

I would love to talk to you more about what you have customized, and what all would need to be reconfigured to get started with upmin to learn from you if you don't mind sharing. My email is jon [at] upmin.com.

> I bled for for ActiveAdmin

I know exactly how you feel. Arbre is neat and all but I think it's a bad idea to use yet another language for your admin stuff. I always use partials so I can work in slim. I probably wouldn't switch now but I'll definitely think about it for my next project.

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