thoughtbot

thoughtbot, inc. Joined Apr 2008 View on GitHub

Stars
133,131
across 383 public repos
Rank
#145
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.2%

Repositories with 50+ stars

thoughtbot's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
6,059

A guide for programming in style.

Ruby 9,569
6,521

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

Ruby 9,013
6,550

A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

Ruby 8,987
6,936

A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

Shell 8,553
7,303

A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.

Shell 8,169
7,307

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Ruby 8,167
10,473

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

JavaScript 6,031
15,129

A fluid and flexible grid Sass framework

Ruby 4,351
16,365

A Rails application template with our standard defaults, optimized for deployment on Heroku.

Ruby 4,040
16,903

Today I Learned

3,925
17,883

Rails authentication with email & password.

Ruby 3,730
18,670

Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

Ruby 3,577
19,345

Functional JSON parsing library for Swift

Swift 3,467
20,563

rc file (dotfile) management

Perl 3,271
20,843

Easily include static pages in your Rails app.

Ruby 3,226
21,476

Factory Bot ♥ Rails

Ruby 3,138
30,871

Makes tests easy on the fingers and the eyes

Ruby 2,202
32,367

Custom Android RecyclerViewAdapters that collapse and expand

Java 2,102
34,864

A Capybara driver for headless WebKit to test JavaScript web apps

Ruby 1,955
34,918

An interactive shell for git

Ruby 1,952
45,704

Weather and Forecasts for Humans

Swift 1,498
46,128

[no longer maintained]

CSS 1,485
47,810

Product Design Sprint Material

1,433
50,302

Add a dash of pre-defined style to your Bourbon.

HTML 1,360
50,453

Simplify receiving email in Rails (deprecated)

Ruby 1,356
51,571

A Ruby library for testing your library against different versions of dependencies.

Ruby 1,324
55,687

Trails to help designers and developers learn various topics.

1,217
62,332

A collection of branches that transmit HTML over the wire.

Ruby 1,073
64,308

A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

TypeScript 1,037
73,500

Shell commands for development, staging, and production parity for Heroku apps

Ruby 893
79,580

Infix operators for monadic functions in Swift

Swift 821
83,475

A small library for doing (command) lines.

Ruby 780
88,744

View helpers for Rails applications

Ruby 731
89,227

Example App: How To Efficiently Display Large Amounts of Data on iOS Maps

Objective-C 727
98,393

Run Rspec specs from Vim

Vim Script 652
98,843

The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications

Ruby 649
103,761

A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

JavaScript 616
108,224

Modify your ENV

Ruby 588
122,793

Better company announcements

Elixir 512
126,672

Swift implementations for function currying

Swift 494
127,118

An unobtrusive, developer-friendly way to add comments

Haskell 492
142,946

Generated scopes for ActiveRecord classes

Ruby 431
146,220

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

Ruby 420
149,125

Reports exceptions to Hoptoad

Ruby 411
153,444

A Stripe fake so that you can avoid hitting Stripe servers in tests.

Ruby 398
155,805

Validate your JSON APIs

Ruby 391
168,053

Nothing but Net(working)

Swift 359
177,156

Sharpen your programming skills.

Ruby 338
198,112

A library for "one off" announcements in Rails apps.

Ruby 297
202,798

Source code for the Testing Rails book

HTML 289
205,238

Run shell commands safely, even with user-supplied values

Ruby 285
209,671

Easy dependency injection for storyboard segues

Swift 278
209,671

Android library, written exclusively in kotlin, for animating the path created from text

Kotlin 278
219,257

Claude skill to run code audits

264
227,882

[no longer maintained]

Ruby 252
234,982

Managing state is hard. Delta aims to make it simple.

Swift 243
239,131

Shoulda Context makes it easy to write understandable and maintainable tests under Minitest and Test::Unit within Rails projects or plain Ruby projects.

Ruby 238
245,035

Providing a new generation of vector assets and infinite possibility for the interactive web and mobile applications

CSS 231
245,912

A collection of useful rake tasks.

Ruby 230
250,476

lumbar support

JavaScript 225
274,771

A very fast json builder for Rails

Ruby 201
275,963

Pluggable HTTP authentication for Swift.

Swift 200
280,670

[DEPRECATED] Easy AJAX file uploading in Rails

Ruby 196
298,420

DIY @font-face web service.

Ruby 182
304,007

Natural-looking Finder Queries for ActiveRecord

Ruby 178
311,256

A command line tool to identify complex code

Rust 173
335,736

Write Yourself A Roguelike: Ruby Edition

Ruby 158
339,266

Sort HTML tables in your Rails app.

Ruby 156
356,161

Automatically ask for a PR review

Ruby 147
362,224

REST in Javascript

JavaScript 144
362,224

Botcasts is a Hotwire-powered podcast player and Hotwire Essentials is the associated tutorial to learn how build it yourself.

Ruby 144
375,046

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
379,551

Heroku deploy tasks with test coverage (DEPRECATED, NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED)

Ruby 136
386,326 Swift 133
391,044

[no longer maintained]

CSS 131
395,913

A template react native project for ergonomic styling structure and patterns.

TypeScript 129
398,359

Spin up an external server just for Capybara

Ruby 128
403,460

A JavaScript Vim simulator for demonstrations

JavaScript 126
403,460

Weather and Forecasts for Humans

Kotlin 126
413,983

Remove the boilerplate of modal presentations in SwiftUI

Swift 122
427,915

TailwindCSS variants for aria-* attributes

JavaScript 117
436,786

[DEPRECATED] Adds test spies to mocha.

Ruby 114
462,540

Gifs!

Objective-C 106
480,756

Terraform modules for rapidly building production-grade Kubernetes clusters following SRE practices.

HCL 101
499,807

A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

CSS 96
535,286

Paperclip demo application

Ruby 88
540,157

A practical book about using Git

HTML 87
540,157

A project scaffold for building ghost themes using gulp, node-sass, & autoprefixer

HTML 87
540,157

Create powerful interfaces for filtering, searching, and sorting collections of items.

Ruby 87
544,989

The base Middleman application used at thoughtbot, ready to deploy to Netlify.

SCSS 86
555,233

Art Vandelay is an importer/exporter for Rails 7.0 and higher.

Ruby 84
566,039

Programming without Null

HTML 82
571,580

[no longer maintained]

CSS 81
583,124

A guide to building a Rails API and iOS app

HTML 79
583,124

A successful open source project is not only one that is original, solves a particular problem well, or has pristine code quality. Those are but the tip of the iceberg, which we'll thoroughly...

Shell 79
594,799

metrics and CI are for A students.

Ruby 77
594,799

Documentation templates for open source projects.

77
594,799

Accessibility tooling for Capybara

Ruby 77
607,098

Sample code for the Blending Modes blog post

Objective-C 75
607,098

A few helpers for Javascript server-side rendering on Rails with mini_racer

JavaScript 75

Among 94,827 organizations

100k–160k stars: 104 organizations, including thoughtbot

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

Languages

  1. Ruby 77.5k stars, 58% · 54 repos
  2. Shell 16.8k stars, 13% · 3 repos
  3. Swift 7.7k stars, 6% · 11 repos
  4. JavaScript 7.4k stars, 6% · 9 repos
  5. Perl 3.3k stars, 2% · 1 repo
  6. CSS 2.1k stars, 2% · 7 repos
  7. Java 2.1k stars, 2% · 1 repo
  8. HTML 2.1k stars, 2% · 7 repos

and 9 more languages

When they were made

100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2008 and 2026

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84 over 100 stars, 29 over 1k stars
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guides, #6,059 of all repos, 7% of stars
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