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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

What do our workspaces look like? (2026 Edition)

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What does Composition Over Inheritance mean?

What Shoulda Matchers Is Actually Doing For You

Podcasts

491: Influences that shaped our thinking

600: The Special One

490: Large Language Misadventure

599: Be Bold

489: What makes a codebase welcoming

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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 523

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 597 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 984 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

Repositories

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  • michel Public

    Find available time slots quickly with a materialized view.

    thoughtbot/michel’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 MIT 1 6 0 Updated Jan 29, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Jan 29, 2026
  • templates Public

    Documentation templates for open source projects.

    thoughtbot/templates’s past year of commit activity
    74 MIT 33 0 0 Updated Jan 28, 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 4,049 MIT 523 2 0 Updated Jan 28, 2026
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 597 MIT 22 9 1 Updated Jan 27, 2026
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 40 MIT 1 0 1 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • laptop Public

    A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

    thoughtbot/laptop’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 8,550 MIT 1,895 2 1 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • deepkit Public Forked from marcj/deepkit

    modular high-performance TypeScript framework

    thoughtbot/deepkit’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 0 MIT 145 0 0 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • stylelint-config Public

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

    thoughtbot/stylelint-config’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 11 MIT 2 0 3 Updated Jan 26, 2026
  • shoulda-matchers Public

    Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

    thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,568 MIT 912 36 8 Updated Jan 23, 2026

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