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Active Admin vs Charles

A side-by-side look at Active Admin and Charles. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Active Admin

Active Admin

Development

Active Admin is an open source Ruby on Rails framework for building administrative interfaces and admin dashboards. It allows developers to quickly scaffold rich web-based interfaces for managing databases and data models.

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Charles

Charles

Development

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

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