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thoughtbot is your expert partner for product design and development. We help our clients lead the way through better products, faster teams, and stronger growth.

thoughtbot is a global consultancy renowned for our community contributions and client outcomes. We use an agile, human-centered strategy for web and mobile products at every stage of the product lifecycle. Since 2003, we have produced high-quality products for over 1,000 clients. We are proud to leave every project with a stronger team and improved processes.

Writing

What do our workspaces look like? (2026 Edition)

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What does Composition Over Inheritance mean?

Podcasts

601: The thing that makes us human

491: Influences that shaped our thinking

600: The Special One

490: Large Language Misadventure

599: Be Bold

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  1. factory_bot factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    Ruby 8.4k 2.6k

  2. administrate administrate Public

    A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

    JavaScript 6k 1.1k

  3. suspenders suspenders Public

    A Rails application template with our standard defaults, optimized for deployment on Heroku.

    Ruby 4.1k 523

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 597 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 985 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

Repositories

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  • shoulda-matchers Public

    Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

    thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,568 MIT 911 35 8 Updated Feb 1, 2026
  • gold_miner Public

    Searches for interesting messages in a Slack channel and creates a blog post with them. See https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tags/this-week-in-dev

    thoughtbot/gold_miner’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 45 MIT 2 4 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Feb 1, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Jan 31, 2026
  • thoughtbot/superglue_rails’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 1 MIT 1 6 2 Updated Jan 31, 2026
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 597 MIT 22 9 1 Updated Jan 31, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 40 MIT 1 0 1 Updated Jan 30, 2026
  • dotfiles Public

    A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.

    thoughtbot/dotfiles’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 8,134 1,817 12 5 Updated Jan 30, 2026
  • rails-audit-thoughtbot Public

    Claude skill to run code audits

    thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot’s past year of commit activity
    23 4 0 2 Updated Jan 30, 2026
  • generate-postman-collection Public

    This repo contains a Claude Skill that you can add to your Rails project to generate a postman collection from your codebase.

    thoughtbot/generate-postman-collection’s past year of commit activity
    1 0 0 0 Updated Jan 30, 2026
  • michel Public

    Find available time slots quickly with a materialized view.

    thoughtbot/michel’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3 MIT 1 6 0 Updated Jan 29, 2026

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