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Our Open Source DNA
Open-source contributions are at the heart of thoughtbot’s company culture, embodying our belief in the importance of accessible and continuous collaboration for sustainable innovation. This collective effort fosters global cooperation and promotes accountability through code transparency, enabling skill development and strengthening the community. By consistently contributing to open-source projects, we nurture sustainability and drive global innovation in our industry.
thoughtbot on GitHub Our open source book
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Stars on GitHub

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Projects

Major open source repos that thoughtbot maintains

guides

9.4k

1.4k

A guide for programming in style.

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bourbon

9.1k

900

A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

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paperclip

deprecated

9.1k

2.5k

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

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laptop

8.4k

1.9k

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

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factory_bot

7.8k

2.6k

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

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dotfiles

7.8k

1.9k

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

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administrate

5.7k

1.1k

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

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neat

deprecated

4.4k

440

A fluid and flexible grid Sass framework

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suspenders

3.9k

530

A Rails template with our standard defaults, ready to deploy to Heroku.

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Contributions

A selection of our commits to external projects

rails/rails

Ruby — Ruby on Rails

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xdesro/personalsit.es

Nunjucks — 📇 A little directory of people's personal sites

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CalvinWalzel/ruby-companies

HTML — A list of companies that develop software with Ruby

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DMarby/vyos-tailscale

Makefile —

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