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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

I copied a prompt and built a management system in a week

Observability for your LLM-powered apps: OTel Instrumentation for RubyLLM

Introducing Test Budget: a linter for test performance

How to launch a Lovable MVP in 2026

Podcasts

605: AI: It doesn't have to be this way with Lord Chris Holmes

498: Season 2 Recap

604: Driving change and delivery with British Business Bank

497: Diagrams we love

496: Test suite performance

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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 521

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 604 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 996 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

Repositories

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  • atomic-commits-plugin Public

    Claude Code plugin for atomic commit workflow and small PR nudges

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    Shell 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 42 MIT 1 0 1 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • administrate Public

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

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    JavaScript 6,019 MIT 1,134 98 (1 issue needs help) 31 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • .github Public
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    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • clearance-i18n Public

    Translations for clearance

    thoughtbot/clearance-i18n’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 5 MIT 20 1 5 Updated Mar 19, 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) 4 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • dotfiles Public

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

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    Shell 8,149 1,803 11 2 Updated Mar 16, 2026
  • stylelint-config Public

    A shareable stylelint configuration that enforces thoughtbot’s Sass guides.

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    JavaScript 11 MIT 2 0 5 Updated Mar 16, 2026
  • duck_typer Public

    Enforce duck-typed interfaces in Ruby through your test suite.

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    Ruby 5 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 13, 2026
  • test_budget Public

    Prevent slow tests from creeping into your suite.

    thoughtbot/test_budget’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 32 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 12, 2026
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