thoughtbot/administrate

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Administrate is a Rails engine (gem) that generates flexible, customizable admin dashboards for Rails applications. It provides clean CRUD interfaces for any model, staying close to standard Rails conventions while allowing overrides with plain controllers and views.

Use cases

• generate an admin dashboard for a Rails app
• CRUD interface for managing database records
• add a back-office panel to manage users and models
• searchable admin interface for ActiveRecord models
• customize admin views with standard Rails controllers and templates
• add authentication and authorization to an admin panel

When to choose

• you have a Rails app with ActiveRecord models needing an admin UI
• you want a maintainable admin dashboard that follows Rails conventions
• you need customizable CRUD interfaces without building from scratch

When to avoid

• your app is not Ruby on Rails
• you need a headless admin API rather than server-rendered views
• you want a fully hosted or no-code admin solution

Facets

library · maturity stable

web-framework ui-components form-handling search-engine auth authorization web-development backend developer-tools cms ruby self-hosted rails-engine admin-dashboard crud active-record gem web-server

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