Ruby on Rails

On 27 April 2012 14:57, Emanresu <craiglbanks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need some help, my partner and I have hired an app development
> company to create an iPhone app that allows shops to list their
> inventory and advertise their specials, there is also a back end admin
> website that shop owners can login to that allows them to update their
> inventory and specials. The admin website communicates directly with
> the iPhone app so that any changes made are shown on the app, pretty
> much in real time.  This admin site has been created using Ruby on
> Rails and is called "Rails Admin."
>
> When we originally gave the developers our brief with all the features
> and functions we required, the developers confirmed that we would be
> able to have it so that shop owners could make changes that affect 1
> or more of their shops, or all of them at once.  This would be done by
> having a super admin login where a shop owner could control changes
> for multiple shops at once and managers at individual shops would have
> a standard admin login with changes only affecting their shop.
>
> As the project progressed, the developers advised that due to the
> limitations of "Rails Admin" it would not be possible to have this
> functionality and that we would have to choose between having it so
> that any changes made to one shop would affect all shops under one
> login, or, having it so that any changes made would only affect
> individual shops (under one login) so that if there was a change that
> affected more than one shop then the change would need to be repeated
> for each shop one at time. They have advised that it was not possible
> to customize "Rails Admin" and that for us to have the desired
> flexibility that we required and originally requested they would need
> to have a new admin system built from scratch and we would be looking
> at a cost of 3 to 4 thousand dollars.
>
> Since this time they have expressed on numerous occasions that they
> have greatly underquoted on our project and they been under financial
> pressure to the point where they was not certain if they could
> continue their business.  They have now emailed us a quote to build a
> new admin site. The quote is for 13 thousand dollars but states that
> because they can use the design and css files from the current "Rails
> Admin" site it will reduce the price to 9 thousand dollars.
>
> What I am wanting help with is to know if they have purchased a Rails
> Kit (such as you might find on this link, http://railskits.com/ )
> called Rails Admin for our project, are these kits customizeable after
> purchase to add to, or modify any functionality within the Ruby on
> Rails framework?  It kind of sounds to me that he is just going to be
> adding the originally requested (and quoted on) functionality that he
> advised was not possible, to the admin site we currently have and
> charging us 9 thousand dollars to do it.

Possibly they are referring to https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin
which is free.  I have no knowledge of the details of this but I would
have thought it likely that any competent Rails programmer would have
little difficulty extending it in the way you want.  I wonder whether
in fact they have little knowledge of Rails and would prefer to do it
a different way rather than extend the existing system.

Why have you posted this again rather than continuing the previous
thread, where I think you did not respond to the suggestions made
then?  It is not good manners to completely ignore the help previously offered.

Colin