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Torque Admin is a Rails Engine that gives your application a fully-featured administrative interface with minimal configuration. It is built on top of vanilla Rails with Hotwire in mind, supports Bootstrap, Bulma, Tailwind, and Semantic UI out of the box, and streams heavy pages by default for a snappy user experience.

Installation

Add Torque Admin to your Gemfile and mount the engine in minutes.

Quickstart

Configure your first admin application and declare your first resource.

Core Concepts

Understand Applications, Resources, Routing, and the Elements DSL.

Configuration

Tune themes, authentication, streaming, and namespace isolation.

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Why Torque Admin?

Most Rails admin frameworks lock you into a specific UI library and rendering approach. Torque Admin is different:
  • Framework-agnostic UI — choose Bootstrap, Bulma, Tailwind, or Semantic UI (Fomantic-UI); or bring your own.
  • Hotwire-first streaming — index and dashboard pages stream their content via ActionController::Live, keeping the browser responsive even over slow connections.
  • Declarative Elements DSL — define menus, forms, and tables once as reusable Element classes; let the engine wire them to your controllers automatically.
  • Multiple admin instances — run separate admin portals (e.g., Admin and PartnerAdmin) inside a single Rails application, each fully isolated.
  • Extended routing DSL — resources, dashboard, section, widgets, actions, and authenticate helpers let you describe your admin surface in plain Ruby.

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How It Works

1

Add the gem

Add gem 'torque-admin' to your Gemfile and run bundle install.
2

Mount the engine

Call admin inside your routes.rb to mount the engine and declare your admin resources.
3

Generate a base controller

Create an Admin::BaseController that inherits from your ApplicationController and includes Torque::Admin::BaseController.
4

Define resources

Declare resource controllers for each model you want to manage; the engine provides all CRUD actions automatically.
Torque Admin is currently in alpha (v0.1.0.a1). The public API is stable enough for production experimentation, but breaking changes may occur before the 1.0 release.

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