# Administrate (Admin dashboards)

> Administrate is a free, open-source admin dashboard template. A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard. It has 6,032 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Start a project with npx degit thoughtbot/administrate or clone the repository.

A framework for creating flexible, powerful admin dashboards in Rails. [Try the demo][demo]. Administrate is a library for Rails that generates admin dashboards. These give users clean interfaces that allow them to create, edit, search, and delete records for any model in the application. Administrate aims to provide the best user experience, and doing as much work as possible for you, whilst also being flexible to customise.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate |
| Built with | not detected |
| Live demo | none listed |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 6,032 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | JavaScript |
| Official | yes |
| Category | Admin dashboards |
| Latest release | v1.0.0 (Oct 31, 2025) |
| Last commit | Sep 18, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit thoughtbot/administrate my-site
cd my-site
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate.git my-site
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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