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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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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

Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI

Combine Capybara selectors to avoid the sequential timeout trap

Podcasts

497: Diagrams we love

496: Test suite performance

495: A shortcut to years of experience

603: The product we are going to build

494: Primitive Obsession

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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 521

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 602 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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  • test_budget Public

    Prevent slow tests from creeping into your suite.

    thoughtbot/test_budget’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 12, 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 Mar 11, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Mar 11, 2026
  • duck_typer Public

    Enforce duck-typed interfaces in Ruby through your test suite.

    thoughtbot/duck_typer’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 4 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 9, 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 6,018 MIT 1,136 97 (1 issue needs help) 37 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • props_template Public

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    thoughtbot/props_template’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 198 MIT 5 3 2 Updated Mar 7, 2026
  • factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    thoughtbot/factory_bot’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 8,352 MIT 2,576 66 (1 issue needs help) 8 Updated Mar 6, 2026
  • rails-audit-thoughtbot Public

    Claude skill to run code audits

    thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot’s past year of commit activity
    54 4 0 0 Updated Mar 6, 2026
  • flightdeck Public

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

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 99 MIT 12 23 (1 issue needs help) 13 Updated Mar 5, 2026
  • data_customs Public

    A simple gem to help you perform data migrations in your Rails app.

    thoughtbot/data_customs’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 5 MIT 1 4 (2 issues need help) 0 Updated Mar 4, 2026