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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

Meet Duck Typer: your new duck typing friend

I copied a prompt and built a management system in a week

Observability for your LLM-powered apps: OTel Instrumentation for RubyLLM

Podcasts

605: AI: It doesn't have to be this way with Lord Chris Holmes

498: Season 2 Recap

604: Driving change and delivery with British Business Bank

497: Diagrams we love

496: Test suite performance

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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 605 22

  5. fishery fishery Public

    A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

    TypeScript 996 40

  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 73 8

Repositories

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  • administrate Public

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

    thoughtbot/administrate’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 6,019 MIT 1,134 96 (1 issue needs help) 34 Updated Mar 25, 2026
  • top_secret Public

    Filter sensitive information from free text before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.

    thoughtbot/top_secret’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 328 MIT 8 0 0 Updated Mar 25, 2026
  • .github Public
    thoughtbot/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 0 0 0 Updated Mar 25, 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 25, 2026
  • rails-audit-thoughtbot Public

    Claude skill to run code audits

    thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot’s past year of commit activity
    67 MIT 4 0 0 Updated Mar 24, 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 1,887 2 0 Updated Mar 24, 2026
  • opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm Public

    OpenTelemetry instrumentation for RubyLLM. 💬🔭

    thoughtbot/opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 16 MIT 2 1 0 Updated Mar 24, 2026
  • generate-postman-collection Public

    This repo contains a Claude Skill that you can add to your Rails project to generate a postman collection from your codebase.

    thoughtbot/generate-postman-collection’s past year of commit activity
    8 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Mar 24, 2026
  • clearance-i18n Public

    Translations for clearance

    thoughtbot/clearance-i18n’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 5 MIT 20 1 7 Updated Mar 24, 2026
  • 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 22 MIT 11 0 2 Updated Mar 22, 2026