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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

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What is Polymorphic Rails Model?

Claude Code: Production ready code in a two-week sprint

Teach your models to act, not just be

Podcasts

602: Understanding the Impact with Jason Stadther

493: Suspenders with Steve Polito

492: Defining value within your team

601: The thing that makes us human

491: Influences that shaped our thinking

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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 599 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 990 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 3,571 MIT 909 35 8 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • noisy-animals-kata Public

    A kata involving noisy animals designed for practice in improving code

    thoughtbot/noisy-animals-kata’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 22 MIT 9 0 0 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • suspenders Public

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

    thoughtbot/suspenders’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4,052 MIT 523 0 0 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 599 MIT 22 9 1 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • belt Public

    Belt is a CLI for starting a new React Native Expo app and will even keep your pants secure as you continue development.

    thoughtbot/belt’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 135 MIT 8 5 4 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • rails-audit-thoughtbot Public

    Claude skill to run code audits

    thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot’s past year of commit activity
    32 4 0 1 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • ruby_llm Public Forked from crmne/ruby_llm

    One beautiful Ruby API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, VertexAI, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, GPUStack & OpenAI compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Images, Embeddings, Tools, Streaming & Rails integration.

    thoughtbot/ruby_llm’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 MIT 373 0 0 Updated Feb 12, 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 6,015 MIT 1,135 98 (1 issue needs help) 40 Updated Feb 12, 2026
  • opentelemetry.io Public Forked from open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io

    The OpenTelemetry website and documentation

    thoughtbot/opentelemetry.io’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 0 CC-BY-4.0 1,695 0 0 Updated Feb 12, 2026
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