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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

Top 5 product mistakes we see in AgeTech (and how to avoid them)

Developing a voice AI app in Rails for drive-through ordering

Common mistakes founders make when building an MVP (and how to avoid them)

Ofcom’s Protection of Children Codes - Happy Birthday to me 🎂

Design’s strategic value is alive and well: More lessons from SXSW

Podcasts

462: Decomposition as a key developer skill with Steve Polito

572: Close To Your Customers with Sarah Merlin

461: Writing new vs existing code with Sara Jackson

571: Space, Software, and Surprises with Rémy Hannequin

460: Programer Productivity with Valerie Burzynski

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  1. factory_bot factory_bot Public

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    Ruby 8k 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 527

  4. superglue superglue Public

    A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

    JavaScript 508 16

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 914 37

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 69 6

Repositories

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  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 1 0 0 Updated May 6, 2025
  • stylelint-config Public

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

    thoughtbot/stylelint-config’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 10 MIT 3 0 1 Updated May 6, 2025
  • administrate Public

    A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

    thoughtbot/administrate’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 5,952 MIT 1,138 98 (1 issue needs help) 31 Updated May 6, 2025
  • fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    thoughtbot/fishery’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 914 MIT 37 15 5 Updated May 5, 2025
  • gold_miner Public

    Searches for interesting messages in a Slack channel and creates a blog post with them. See https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tags/this-week-in-dev

    thoughtbot/gold_miner’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 40 MIT 3 3 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated May 5, 2025
  • terraform-alb-ingress Public

    Terraform module to create an ingress stack powered by AWS Application Load Balancer

    thoughtbot/terraform-alb-ingress’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 1 2 0 2 Updated May 5, 2025
  • yuri-ita Public

    Create powerful interfaces for filtering, searching, and sorting collections of items.

    thoughtbot/yuri-ita’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 88 MIT 5 7 2 Updated May 5, 2025
  • upcase Public

    Sharpen your programming skills.

    thoughtbot/upcase’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 329 MIT 38 3 8 Updated May 4, 2025
  • flightdeck Public

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

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 93 MIT 11 22 (1 issue needs help) 9 Updated May 2, 2025
  • pair-matchmaker Public Forked from testdouble/double-up

    Slack scheduler to set up rotating pairings

    thoughtbot/pair-matchmaker’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 5 0 3 Updated May 2, 2025