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We work with organizations of all sizes to design, develop, and grow their web and mobile products.
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Welcome to thoughtbot on GitHub!

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

Podcasts

629: “What About The Juniors?” With Bruce Tate

628: Incorruptible with Eric Ries

627: Mike Perham on Sidekiq, Solid Queue, and why he said no to AI

510: Technical Debt is Technically Risk

626: “Working Side By Side With AI” with Lord Tim Clement-Jones

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  1. factory_bot factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    Ruby 8.2k 2.5k

  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 4k 520

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 616 27

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 1k 39

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 77 8

Repositories

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  • administrate Public

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

    thoughtbot/administrate's past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 6,031 MIT 1,126 95 (1 issue needs help) 33 Updated Nov 10, 2026
  • opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm Public

    OpenTelemetry instrumentation for RubyLLM. 💬🔭

    thoughtbot/opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 55 MIT 11 3 2 Updated Nov 9, 2026
  • devcontainers Public

    Dev Containers that follow thoughtbot's conventions

    thoughtbot/devcontainers's past year of commit activity
    Shell 0 0 0 0 Updated Nov 9, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux's past year of commit activity
    CSS 96 MIT 4 4 3 Updated Nov 9, 2026
  • guides Public

    A guide for programming in style.

    thoughtbot/guides's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 9,568 1,346 1 11 Updated Nov 9, 2026
  • shoulda-matchers Public

    Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

    thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,577 MIT 914 34 6 Updated Nov 9, 2026
  • devise-eager-load-issue-demo Public
    thoughtbot/devise-eager-load-issue-demo's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 0 0 9 Updated Nov 8, 2026
  • rails-consultant Public

    A collection of skills for software development and consulting with an emphasis on learning, communication, and client success.

    thoughtbot/rails-consultant's past year of commit activity
    Shell 29 MIT 1 8 3 Updated Nov 7, 2026
  • terraform-eks-cicd Public

    Create CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications to EKS clusters.

    thoughtbot/terraform-eks-cicd's past year of commit activity
    HCL 13 MIT 6 0 6 Updated Nov 4, 2026
  • factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    thoughtbot/factory_bot's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 8,166 MIT 2,549 43 (1 issue needs help) 20 Updated Nov 3, 2026
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