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Looking for Upcase? Upcase was our popular educational platform for learning Ruby and Rails and other technologies. It has been retired, but our team is still sharing learning resources for Rails, AI, and other technologies every day.
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Best of Tech Leadership
Level up your development team
For team leads who care about quality code and continuous improvement, we've pulled together some of thoughtbot's most popular resources to help your team be successful.
Featured Sessions
AI in Focus
Let’s break down the AI hype machine. Join our series designed for thoughtful product leaders who want to uncover the business potential of realistic AI options.
In each session, we’ll guide you beyond the buzz. Learn how to sort through your AI ideas, identify the most viable options, assess technical feasibility, and start executing.
Podcast
The Bike Shed
On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss their development experience and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
Podcast
Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week, Chad Pytel (CEO) is joined by people who build and nurture the products we love.
Open source
Build Better, Faster with thoughtbot's Open Source Libraries
Spend more time on your app’s unique functionality and leave the repeatable features to thoughtbot. With over a billion downloads, our open source projects power many of the world’s most visited websites.
Design resources
Learn from our Design team
Our human-centered design process is grounded in the principles of Design Thinking. Learn how we approach product design in our playbook.
Development resources
Learn from our Development team
Since 2012, one way we’ve shared thoughtbot expertise is through the learning platform Upcase. With Upcase, we’ve helped thousands of developers level up their skills through workshops, videos, flash cards, and coding exercises.
Our Approach
Customer Discovery Playbook
In our many years of experience designing and building products, we’ve learned how important it is to regularly ask, “Is this the right thing for us to be building right now?” A key ingredient in building that right thing is knowing who you're building it for and why they need it right now. This collection of customer discovery exercises will help your team find (or regain) customer, product, and strategic focus.
Online workshops and events
We host events and facilitate discussions on a variety of product strategy, design & development topics
Past event recordings can be found on our Events page and we encourage you to sign up for our newsletter and follow us on socials to learn about new events where you can join us.
Books
Take one off the thoughtbot bookshelf
Ruby Science
The canonical reference for writing fantastic Rails applications from authors who have created hundreds.
Testing Rails
Learn to test Ruby on Rails web applications from the ground up in this comprehensive guide to modern testing practices.
Maintaining Open Source Projects
Learn the many facets of creating, growing and maintaining a successful open source project.
Domain Name Sanity
Learn to make domains and TLS certificates predictable and debuggable, while grasping their core concepts with plenty of examples.
Maybe Haskell
See what it’s like to program in a language without null. You might even learn some Haskell along the way.
Goal-Oriented Git (Beta)
Learn to accomplish your Git goals without getting distracted by internals or confusing terminology.