Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards
A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards launched on November 4, 2015 with 124 votes, #261 of 4,110 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Administrate is a Rails engine that generates admin dashboards for Rails applications. Built by thoughtbot, it provides a flexible alternative to existing admin solutions, allowing developers to create customizable interfaces for managing application data. The tool is designed for Rails developers who need quick access to admin functionality without building dashboards from scratch.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Work alongside the thoughtbot team as we collaborate with each other and our clients, live. Ask us anything, we're live right now! Administrate is a new open-source library that helps you create beautiful admin dashboards in Rails apps. thoughtbot builds applications for all kinds of clients. No matter what field our clients are in, one of the most common needs is an admin dashboard - a window into the data behind the application. In those situations, we historically turned to the excellent Ruby gems Active Admin and RailsAdmin to provide off-the-shelf admin dashboards and save us the hassle of writing boilerplate code. However, as we used these tools we kept running into problems. Usually,…from robots.thoughtbot.com
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