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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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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 614 27

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 1k 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 78 8

Repositories

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  • 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 3 1 Updated Nov 7, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux's past year of commit activity
    CSS 96 MIT 4 4 2 Updated Nov 6, 2026
  • administrate Public

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

    thoughtbot/administrate's past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 6,032 MIT 1,128 97 (1 issue needs help) 40 Updated Nov 6, 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 4, 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 2,548 43 (1 issue needs help) 20 Updated Nov 3, 2026
  • rubocop_capybara_accessible_selectors Public

    Make sure your specs use accessible selectors

    thoughtbot/rubocop_capybara_accessible_selectors's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Nov 3, 2026
  • props_template Public

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    thoughtbot/props_template's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 201 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Nov 3, 2026
  • alba Public Forked from okuramasafumi/alba

    Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.

    thoughtbot/alba's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 MIT 65 0 0 Updated Nov 2, 2026
  • clean-rspec-output Public

    A Claude Code skill that systematically eliminates unexpected output from a Ruby on Rails RSpec test suite

    thoughtbot/clean-rspec-output's past year of commit activity
    13 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Nov 2, 2026