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Yes and no. There have been some cool projects for Rails that provide administrative interfaces, but they all suffer from a lack of critical mass. Django's admin interface is just core to the framework - not because it has to be, but in the way that the core team sees it as something that can't languish.

On the horizon, merb-admin is being ported to Rails 3 by Yehuda Katz (http://yehudakatz.com/2009/12/31/spinning-up-a-new-rails-app...). If that comes to fruition, I think it might become a standard tool for Rails users who want admin pages. We'll see.

Being a part of the framework itself makes the Django admin interface always receive attention. Separate Rails projects do exist, but are often by one or a small number of people and not as widely used as the Django admin interface. So, they are there, but often don't have quite the polish and utility of Django's interface.



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