---
title: On the path to Administrate v1
teaser: 'We''re close to releasing Administrate v1. We''d love it if you could try
  it out!

  '
tags: rails,administrate
author: Nick Charlton
published_on: 2024-11-27
---

I’m pleased to announce that we’re very close to cutting the release of
Administrate v1. [We already have two beta releases out][6], 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][1], which should avoid additional
configuration in a lot of cases, we've also [migrated away from `jquery-ujs` to
now use `@hotwired/turbo`][2] and [introduced Stimulus][3]. [We've just merged
in support for Rails 8.0][5]. 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][4].

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.

[1]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/2397
[2]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/2448
[3]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/2447
[4]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/issues/new/choose
[5]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/2705
[6]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/releases/tag/v1.0.0.beta2