Rails Panel

Devtools panel for Rails development

Rails Panel Chrome Extension - Improve Rails Development

Rails Panel is a Chrome extension for Rails development that eliminates the need to tail development.log. It offers detailed information about Rails app requests, including db/rendering/total times, parameter list, rendered views, and text editor integration.
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Extension stats

Users: 8,000+
Rating: 4.82
(109)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2024-04-29)
Creation date: 2019-05-09
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • offscreen
  • clipboardWrite
Host permissions:
  • http://localhost/*
Size: 734.21K

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Extension summary

Rails Panel is a Chrome extension for Rails development that will end your tailing of development.log. Have all information about your Rails app requests right there in the Developer Tools panel. Provides insight to db/rendering/total times, parameter list, rendered views, text editor integration and more.

To use this extension you need to add meta_request gem to your app's Gemfile:

group :development do gem 'meta_request' end

User reviews

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Pros
  • Great for Rails developing
  • Very helpful extension
  • Awesome tool overall
  • Works well with the meta_request gem
Cons
  • Need for updates due to compatibility issues
  • Missing count of SQL queries in the latest update
  • Crashes when opening files in an editor
  • Issues with selected requests being overridden by new requests
Most mentioned
  • Need for updates
  • Crashing issues
  • Missing feature (SQL query count)
  • Helpful tool for developers
User reviews
I just installed the chrome extension 1.0.1 with the latest meta_request gem 0.8.5. On Chrome Browser 130 On macOS 15.1 Sequioa VScode 1.95.2 Rails s running on 3000 Started the server with Panel open and crashed a page with error The panel does not show any information.
by Jagdish Adusumalli, 2024-11-14

meta_request gem is broken in Rails 7.1 ☹️ Dejan please check pull request #199
by Abel O'Rian, 2024-08-29

by Fernando Alvarado, 2024-06-25
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Rails Panel requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Rails Panel has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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