Hound

What Is the Hound Theme?

Hound is a free CRM + project-management theme that ships with Tailwind v4 CSS, Stimulus JS sprinkles, and lives completely inside your Rails app, so you never copy-paste external snippets . It’s the default theme installed by the rails railsui:install generator, making it the quickest way to see RailsUI in action.

Features ✨

• 20 + pre-designed views covering dashboards, auth, and marketing pages

• 50 + reusable Tailwind-styled components (accordion, modal, cards, etc.)

• Dark-mode support baked into every component and email template

• Hotwire-ready: Stimulus controllers power dropdowns, toasts, and more

• Fully responsive layouts tested on popular breakpoints

• Tailwind v4 out-of-the-box plus easy brand-color overrides via railsui.yml

Included Components 📒

Accordion • Alert • Badge • Breadcrumb • Button • Card • Dropdown • Modal • Pagination • Tabs • Toast • Tooltip

Pros & Cons

Pros ✅

• Time-saver: replaces weeks of UI work with drop-in pages and components

• Rails-first: integrates with one installer command—no extra build steps

• Free & OSS core: Hound ships with the MIT-licensed gem; extras come via paid tiers

• Active project: 430 + GitHub stars and frequent theme updates on YouTube & X

Cons ⚠️

• Requires Tailwind; migrating from Bootstrap means rewriting classes

• Opinionated aesthetic—deep tweaks still need custom CSS

• Importmaps / Propshaft setups remain untested

• Limited to Rails; Laravel or Phoenix devs must look elsewhere

Integration

• Add gem "railsui" then rails railsui:install—choose Hound in the wizard

• Works with cssbundling-rails & jsbundling-rails (esbuild, bun, rollup, webpack)

• Tailwind v4 config and brand colors live under /stylesheets/railsui

• Stimulus controllers included; Turbo just works out-of-the-box

FAQ

Is Hound open-source?

Yes—the core theme is MIT; premium tiers add more layouts.

Does it support Turbo/Hotwire?

Absolutely—Stimulus controllers and Turbo-ready views are included.