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thoughtbot's agent skills

Announcing some new skills for Claude and other coding agents to help with development, design, and consulting.
Dave Iverson
September 21, 2026
- Agents
- Claude
- Open Source
- AI
- Tools
- Development
Announcing importmap-update: automated dependency updates for importmap-rails

Dependabot keeps your gems current, but it doesn’t know about the JavaScript packages pinned in your Rails importmap. We’re releasing a GitHub Action that opens pull requests for the ones that are outdated or vulnerable.
Neil Carvalho
September 9, 2026
Humid 1.0: React server-side rendering in Rails can be easy!

We’re releasing Humid 1.0. A few helper methods to help with React server-side rendering in Rails with mini_racer.
Johny Ho
August 4, 2026
- Frontend
- JavaScript
- Open Source
- Rails
- Ruby On Rails
- React
Roux’s New Component Library

We’ve added UI components to Roux!
Elaina Natario and Dave Iverson
July 1, 2026
- HTML
- CSS
- News
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Announcing Shoulda Matchers 8.0: validate multiple attributes in one line

The latest Shoulda Matchers cuts repetitive validation specs down to a single line, runs on Ruby 4, and keeps up with the newest Rails.
Matheus Sales
June 23, 2026
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- Ruby
- Ruby On Rails
- Testing
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- Shoulda
Why Duck Typer?

Some say interface tests are fragile and shouldn’t be written. I disagree. Here’s why I think they’re worth writing.
Thiago Araújo Silva
May 26, 2026
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
- Design
Why thoughtbot is joining the Ruby Alliance

thoughtbot is joining the Ruby Alliance, a coalition of companies investing in the long-term sustainability of Ruby infrastructure and the broader ecosystem. Here’s why we believe shared stewardship matters for Ruby’s future.
Chad Pytel and Ran Craycraft
May 20, 2026
- News
- Ruby
- Ruby On Rails
- Open Source
- Community
PII filtering for RubyLLM with Top Secret

Automatically filter sensitive information from your RubyLLM conversations before it reaches third-party providers.
Steve Polito
April 17, 2026
Announcing Michel: A scheduling gem for health tech

Remove bottlenecks to booking appointments by enabling self-scheduling within your app.
Sally Hall
February 5, 2026
- Health Tech
- Databases
- Ruby On Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Open
- Open Source
- Performance
- Web
Rethinking CSS with Roux - debuting at thoughtbot Open Summit

Remember Bourbon and Bitters? Meet their modern successor: Roux. Elaina Natario talks about her new CSS boilerplate that rethinks how teams structure and scale their styles without needing to reach for frameworks like Tailwind.
Lindsey Christensen
October 27, 2025
- CSS
- Open Source
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