Daniel P. Clark

You've given me no compelling reason not to use RVM. I happen to like rvm.

Yes it is purposefully done so you can't bookmark it. Security in obscurity. And yes if it's on multiple servers each would have it's own url... but they would each work on their own servers. ActiveAdmin controls themselves don't have a problem with the relative url. You will often handle items/resources from outside of ActiveAdmin scope. Otherwise you can simply include the dynamic directory link helper.

If several ActiveAdmin's are running on different servers and accessing the same database resource, this obscure subdirectory has no affect on how the data is handled or processed. It will be the same as if there were no obscure subdirectory.

I'm not sure about a load balancer. It's just a link, although dynamic, so I don't believe it would be an issue.

If for some reason you wanted to access ActiveAdmin's on different servers as they may have instances where they would keep controls specific to that server, then you could design an api call to the random directory string. But then again you would want to secure and obscure the api call. ;-) Or just ensure the admin user is logged in for the remote request to get the directory string. It all depends on how far you want to go with it.

Thanks! Typo fixed.