I’m pleased to announce that we’re very close to cutting the release of Administrate v1. We already have two beta releases out, with a release candidate soon around the corner.
Administrate is a framework for creating flexible, powerful admin dashboards in Rails, focusing on using generators and just a little bit of magic to provide the best user experience for end users and be easier for developers to customise.
For a long time, Administrate has been fairly stable when it comes to features,
but we’d not yet cut release v1. Our focus has been on modernising and
simplifying for users how we handle CSS and JS assets. To that end, we’re now
bundling compiled assets in the Gem itself, which should avoid additional
configuration in a lot of cases, we’ve also migrated away from jquery-ujs to
now use @hotwired/turbo and introduced Stimulus. We’ve just merged
in support for Rails 8.0. And squashed a load of bugs too!
We’ve tried as best we can to try and make this as easy an upgrade as possible, but if you’re using Administrate on your application, we’d love it if you could try out one of the beta releases, and open an issue if you find any problems.
As the primary maintainer, I’d like to thank thoughtbot colleagues past and present, our regular contributors from around the world, to all of you who are regularly making things better for everyone through your comments, suggestions and PRs. I really couldn’t do it with you.
