TrestleAdmin/trestle

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1992 stars · 175 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Trestle is a modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails that lets developers build back-office admin interfaces via a Ruby DSL. It provides customizable CRUD resources, forms, tables, navigation, and a plugin ecosystem including authentication and search.

Use cases

• build an admin dashboard for a Rails app
• generate CRUD admin panels from ActiveRecord models
• create a back-office CMS for managing content
• add authenticated admin area to Rails application
• customize admin UI with company branding
• replace ActiveAdmin with a simpler admin framework

When to choose

• you have a Rails app and need an admin backend quickly
• you want a DSL-driven, customizable admin with Bootstrap UI
• you need plugin support for admin auth and search

When to avoid

• your project is not Ruby on Rails
• you need a headless admin API rather than server-rendered UI
• you require a framework with a permissive license (LGPL-3.0)

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework ui-components form-handling auth search-engine templating web-development backend developer-tools cms ruby ruby-on-rails admin-dashboard admin-framework crud-admin bootstrap dsl activeadmin-alternative web-server

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