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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

From Rails to JavaScript: A spectrum of integration options

The hard truth about soft deletion

A thread-safety gotcha with CurrentAttributes

Enough unix to get by

Podcasts

583: Solid Queue with Rosa Gutierrez from 37Signals

582: Product market fit is the hardest thing with Jon Gamble

581: Crafting Community & Code: Henrique Cardoso on Euruko 2025 & BSPK

467: How to get the most out of attending a conference with Matheus Richard

580: Taking the complexity out of toddler's nutrition with Kay Lim

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  1. factory_bot factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    Ruby 8.1k 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 template with our standard defaults.

    Ruby 4k 526

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 539 17

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 933 39

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 71 6

Repositories

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  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 1 0 0 Updated Jul 21, 2025
  • upcase Public

    Sharpen your programming skills.

    thoughtbot/upcase’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 331 MIT 38 6 5 Updated Jul 21, 2025
  • 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 3 0 2 Updated Jul 21, 2025
  • factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    thoughtbot/factory_bot’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 8,082 MIT 2,588 70 (1 issue needs help) 14 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • guides Public

    A guide for programming in style.

    thoughtbot/guides’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 9,513 1,372 0 10 Updated Jul 15, 2025
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 539 MIT 17 4 1 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • 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 19 MIT 9 0 0 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • flightdeck Public

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

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 95 MIT 12 23 (1 issue needs help) 10 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • thoughtbot/superglue_rails’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 MIT 0 1 1 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • props_template Public

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    thoughtbot/props_template’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 169 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Jul 13, 2025