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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

Code Audits in the Days of AI

This week in #dev (Jan 9, 2026)

Our UK Tech Leader Tour

A JavaScript Developer's Guide to Rails - Series Introduction

Building programmable QA with AI

Podcasts

599: Be Bold

489: What makes a codebase welcoming

488: The Playful Portland Programming Paradigm

487: ActiveModel custom attributes

486: ActiveModel Everywhere

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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 979 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 8

Repositories

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  • dotfiles Public

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

    thoughtbot/dotfiles’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 8,129 1,817 11 4 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Jan 20, 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 2 Updated Jan 20, 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 6,016 MIT 1,134 97 (1 issue needs help) 36 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • rails-audit-thoughtbot Public

    Claude skill to run code audits

    thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot’s past year of commit activity
    3 1 0 1 Updated Jan 20, 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 1 0 Updated Jan 19, 2026
  • superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    thoughtbot/superglue’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 597 MIT 22 8 1 Updated Jan 17, 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 1,897 2 2 Updated Jan 16, 2026
  • codespaces-demo Public

    How do you run a Rails app in GitHub Codespaces?

    thoughtbot/codespaces-demo’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 0 0 10 Updated Jan 16, 2026
  • props_template Public

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    thoughtbot/props_template’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 175 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Jan 16, 2026
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