According to this blog post Active Admin monthly downloads nearly doubled last year to almost 3,000 times a day. Part of that can probably be attributed to increasing use of continuous integration, but more interesting is that Active Admin has outpaced the competition. Possible contributing factors include three releases, including a 1.0 release that coincided with RailsConf and was featured by Ruby Weekly, a GoRails episode by Chris Oliver at the end of 2016, and the blog post by Charlie Gleason on using Active Admin as a back end to a React application, that has been discovered and tweeted by new fans repeatedly. I’ld love to think that timely responses to GitHub issues and pull requests and StackOverflow answers have helped also, along with the curated wiki and continuing contributions by plugin authors. Also there have been Japanese blog posts and activity so more adoption there. At this point Active Admin has 7,800 GitHub stars and 2.9M downloads, it will interesting to see how things are another year from now.
