Forest Rails
Forest Rails is a free, open-source admin dashboard template. Ruby on Rails agent for Forest Admin to integrate directly to your existing Ruby on Rails backend application. It has 385 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license. A live demo is linked from this page.
Get started
Copy the files into a new folder with degit (no git history), or clone the repository with git.
npx degit ForestAdmin/forest-rails my-site
cd my-sitegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ForestAdmin/forest-rails.git my-siteSources: GitHub docs on template repositories, degit.
About Forest Rails
Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf administration panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.
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What is Forest Rails?
Forest Rails is a free, open-source admin dashboard template. Ruby on Rails agent for Forest Admin to integrate directly to your existing Ruby on Rails backend application. It has 385 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license. A live demo is linked from this page.
How do I use Forest Rails?
Copy the files into a new folder with npx degit ForestAdmin/forest-rails my-site (no git history), or fork the repository on GitHub. Then follow the README for the install and dev commands.
Can I use Forest Rails for commercial projects?
It depends on the GPL-3.0 license. CC-BY licenses need visible attribution, GPL and AGPL licenses require sharing your changes under the same license, and other licenses have their own terms. Read the LICENSE file in the repository before shipping a client project.
Is Forest Rails maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. Its latest release is v9.22.8. appsgit only lists templates from repositories with a commit in the last six months.