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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

ChatGPT agent: Experimenting with QA automation

Podcasts

488: The Playful Portland Programming Paradigm

487: ActiveModel custom attributes

486: ActiveModel Everywhere

485: HTTP Basic Auth

598: Animals and AI Accounting with Sam Landsberg

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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 4k 524

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 595 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 973 39

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

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  • suspenders Public

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

    thoughtbot/suspenders’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4,049 MIT 524 0 1 Updated Jan 10, 2026
  • analyzer Public Forked from malomalo/analyzer

    A Performance analyzer for Ruby

    thoughtbot/analyzer’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 0 MIT 2 0 0 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • props_template Public

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    thoughtbot/props_template’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 174 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Jan 10, 2026
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 595 MIT 22 9 2 Updated Jan 10, 2026
  • factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    thoughtbot/factory_bot’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 8,374 MIT 2,586 66 (1 issue needs help) 8 Updated Jan 10, 2026
  • michel Public

    đźš§ coming soon

    thoughtbot/michel’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 1 MIT 1 0 1 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • flightdeck Public

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

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 96 MIT 12 23 (1 issue needs help) 12 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • shoulda-matchers Public

    Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

    thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,564 MIT 912 37 8 Updated Jan 9, 2026
  • guides Public

    A guide for programming in style.

    thoughtbot/guides’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 9,513 1,366 0 13 Updated Jan 8, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Jan 7, 2026