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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

Going beyond vibe coding with ReadySetGo

Our first Tech Leaders Meetup in Bristol, UK

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Authorization with Pundit

Podcasts

603: The product we are going to build

494: Primitive Obsession

602: Understanding the Impact with Jason Stadther

493: Suspenders with Steve Polito

492: Defining value within your team

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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 522

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 600 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 994 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

Repositories

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  • .github Public
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    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Feb 21, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 41 MIT 1 0 1 Updated Feb 21, 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 6,017 MIT 1,136 97 (1 issue needs help) 43 Updated Feb 20, 2026
  • guides Public

    A guide for programming in style.

    thoughtbot/guides’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 9,523 1,361 0 13 Updated Feb 20, 2026
  • clearance-i18n Public

    Translations for clearance

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

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

    thoughtbot/dotfiles’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 8,141 1,808 11 4 Updated Feb 19, 2026
  • flightdeck Public

    Terraform modules for rapidly building production-grade Kubernetes clusters following SRE practices.

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 97 MIT 12 23 (1 issue needs help) 13 Updated Feb 18, 2026
  • shoulda-matchers Public

    Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

    thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,573 MIT 908 36 9 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 4,053 MIT 523 0 0 Updated Feb 13, 2026
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