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guides
A guide for programming in style.

Ruby · 9563 stars
laptop
A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

Shell · 8556 stars
dotfiles
A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.

Shell · 8173 stars
factory_bot
A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Ruby · 8169 stars
administrate
A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

JavaScript · 6032 stars
shoulda-matchers
Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

Ruby · 3580 stars
factory_bot_rails
Factory Bot ♥ Rails

Ruby · 3139 stars
superglue
A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

JavaScript · 612 stars
rails-audit-thoughtbot
Claude skill to run code audits

251 stars
belt
Belt is a CLI for starting a new React Native Expo app and will even keep your pants secure as you continue development.

TypeScript · 138 stars
flightdeck
Terraform modules for rapidly building production-grade Kubernetes clusters following SRE practices.

HCL · 100 stars
roux
A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

CSS · 93 stars
humid
A few helpers for Javascript server-side rendering on Rails with mini_racer

JavaScript · 75 stars
opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for RubyLLM. 💬🔭

Ruby · 53 stars
form_props
Rails form helpers :heart: React.

Ruby · 50 stars
gold_miner
Searches for interesting messages in a Slack channel and creates a blog post with them. See https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tags/this-week-in...

Ruby · 45 stars
rails-consultant
A collection of skills for Rails development and consulting with an emphasis on learning, communication, and client success.

Shell · 25 stars
candy_wrapper

JavaScript · 12 stars
terraform-aws-backup

HCL · 8 stars
superglue_rails

Ruby · 5 stars
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/onboard skill doesn't belong in the React Development plugin Open

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thoughtbot/skills#9 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Commented steps Open

New cop idea

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thoughtbot/rubocop-thoughtbot#5 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Make whats-in-port and clear-port agree on what is in a port Open

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thoughtbot/dotfiles#796 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Set up the Matt Pocock skills the agent flows expect Open

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thoughtbot/dotfiles#795 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Add a CODING_STANDARDS.md for shell scripts Open

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thoughtbot/dotfiles#794 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Add a CONTRIBUTING.md Open

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thoughtbot/dotfiles#793 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Run ShellCheck over bin/ in CI Open

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thoughtbot/dotfiles#792 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Move the factory_girl upgrade guide link out of the README Open

feature

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thoughtbot/factory_bot#1835 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Resourceful routes Open

New cop idea

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thoughtbot/rubocop-thoughtbot#4 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Suggestion: re-running an audit and dealing with unresolved/accepted findings Open

enhancement

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thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot#18 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Service objects are poorly named models Open

New cop idea

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thoughtbot/rubocop-thoughtbot#3 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Add support for Mosscap (Rails-fork previously known as Amiko) Open

dependencies

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thoughtbot/administrate#3061 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Divergence between Ruby and Node dependencies Open

dependencies

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thoughtbot/administrate#3060 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
QA script formalizing the manual feature-skill workflow Open

ready-for-human

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

thoughtbot/belt#83 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
State-management: Redux Toolkit variant + emit-time variant prompt Open

ready-for-human

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thoughtbot/belt#82 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
State-management feature skill: Zustand variant Open

ready-for-human

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thoughtbot/belt#81 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
belt agent namespace: generic feature-skill emit machinery Open

ready-for-agent

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thoughtbot/belt#80 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Slice skill is not optimized for Feature Dev skill Open

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thoughtbot/rails-consultant#53 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Show full pageToPagemapping in errors when Navigation can't find it. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

thoughtbot/superglue#231 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Meta Issue on Issues Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/factory_bot#1827 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Feedback on Documentation Open

documentation good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/factory_bot#1826 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Refactor internal references to ignored (attributes) to transient attributes Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

thoughtbot/factory_bot#1825 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Add undo/redo/reset chain to useUpdateFragment Open

RubyConf 2026

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

thoughtbot/superglue#214 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2026
validate_uniqueness_of :field, conditions: -> { ... } support Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers#1715 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Merge PR feature Open

enhancement

thoughtbot/dependabot-review-skill-thoughtbot#2 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Moving to `opentelemetry-ruby-contrib`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

thoughtbot/opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm#26 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2026
Consider using a standalone Node.js process Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/humid#16 · 4 comments · Opened May 23, 2026
<th> tags in <tbody> and <tfoot> don't look great Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

thoughtbot/roux#16 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2026
Curious learner: What's the reason for the multiple input focus styles? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

thoughtbot/roux#14 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2026
Normalize-Matcher option to assert normalization callable is defined for "normalize with:" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers#1704 · Opened May 8, 2026
Rails AI rules could benefit from Hotwire rules Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

thoughtbot/guides#787 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Dependabot grouping Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

thoughtbot/administrate#3020 · Opened Mar 25, 2026
OTel that include in RubyLLM::MCP coverage Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

thoughtbot/opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm#13 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 28, 2026
dart-sass import is deprecated Open

javascript views-and-styles

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2979 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Deleting resource (from index collection table) redirects to resource page Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2978 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2026
🐛 Fix the script writing to the wrong file Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

thoughtbot/laptop#660 · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Replace Selectize with a web component Open

dashboards dependencies feature fields javascript views-and-styles

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2958 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Split i18n templates Open

documentation i18n

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thoughtbot/administrate#2955 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Pull in administrate-field-nested_has_many Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2952 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Experimenting with discussions Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2932 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Patterns for incremental adoption Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/superglue#183 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
How do you add a custom Stimulus controller in Administrate v1.0? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

thoughtbot/administrate#2924 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Add `file_fixture_upload` to factories Open

feature

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thoughtbot/factory_bot_rails#547 · Opened Nov 4, 2025
Use Kernel#Barrier Open

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thoughtbot/gold_miner#134 · Opened Nov 3, 2025
insert_all or active_record-import integration Open

feature

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thoughtbot/factory_bot#1788 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2025
create_list does not correctly override parameter Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

thoughtbot/factory_bot#1787 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Add support for more candy wrappers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

thoughtbot/candy_wrapper#3 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Add support for dot notation with form_props Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

thoughtbot/form_props#27 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Add support for react hook form syntax params parsing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

thoughtbot/superglue_rails#15 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Make Super Turbo Streams play nicely with Turbo Streams. Open

RubyConf 2026

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

thoughtbot/superglue_rails#14 · Opened Oct 7, 2025

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