--- title: "Audit a Rails Project with the Thoughtbot Audit Skill" url: https://daily.dev/posts/audit-a-rails-project-with-the-thoughtbot-audit-skill-lsgp70v4m source_url: https://danielabaron.me/blog/audit-rails-project-with-thoughtbot-skill type: article source: "RUBYLAND" published: 2026-07-05T22:55:07.249Z updated: 2026-07-06T08:22:08.185Z tags: ["github", "postgresql", "rails", "claude"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Audit a Rails Project with the Thoughtbot Audit Skill **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer ran the Thoughtbot Rails Audit Skill (a Claude-powered tool) against a five-year-old Rails 8 side project to surface tech debt. The audit completed in under 10 minutes and produced a structured markdown report with 20+ findings grouped by category and severity — covering testing gaps, a missing PostgreSQL trigram index causing slow LIKE queries, and view-layer logic smells. The post then details a multi-step workflow to convert the audit report into labelled, severity-tiered GitHub issues using Claude: splitting findings into individual markdown files, proposing a label scheme, applying labels, and finally creating the issues via the GitHub CLI. The whole process took an afternoon versus days of manual review. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-in-focus-a-new-claude-skill-for-rails-code-audits-rz5imfffg) · thoughbot · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Code Audits in the Days of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/code-audits-in-the-days-of-ai-wr9p0hjzm) · thoughbot · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/audit-a-rails-project-with-the-thoughtbot-audit-skill-lsgp70v4m)