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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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Forks

Projects

Major open source repos that thoughtbot maintains

guides

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1.4k

A guide for programming in style.

laptop

8.5k

1.9k

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

dotfiles

8.1k

1.8k

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

factory_bot

8.1k

2.6k

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Use factory_bot

administrate

6k

1.1k

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

Use administrate

suspenders

4k

530

A Rails template with our standard defaults.

clearance

3.7k

470

Rails authentication with email & password.

shoulda-matchers

3.6k

910

Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

Use shoulda-matchers

Argo

3.5k

190

Functional JSON parsing library for Swift

Projects

Open source projects we're excited about

superglue

A productive library for Classic Rails, React and Redux

fishery

A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data

capybara_accessibility_audit

Accessibility tooling for Capybara

Use capybara_accessibility_audit

Projects

Open source projects we've sunset

bourbon

9.1k

870

deprecated

A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

Explore bourbon

paperclip

9k

2.4k

deprecated

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

Explore paperclip

neat

4.4k

420

deprecated

A fluid and flexible grid Sass framework

Contributions

A selection of our commits to external projects

bensheldon/good_job

Ruby — Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

Check out good_job

rspec/rspec

Ruby — The RSpec monorepo

Check out rspec

African-Ruby-Community/arc_platform

Ruby — Africa Ruby Community(ARC) Platform

Check out arc_platform

Infrastructure

Open source Platform Engineering resources by thoughtbot

AWS Platform Guide

A complete guide on how to build your infrastructure on AWS.

Check out AWS Platform Guide

thoughtbot/flightdeck

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

Check out flightdeck

thoughtbot/flightctl

Rust — A command-line client to interact with Flightdeck clusters and workspaces.

Check out flightctl

Contributions

Open source design resources by thoughtbot

Design Sprint Guide

Find exercises and schedule examples for running a design sprint

Check out the Design Sprint Guide

Product Design Sprint Kit

Step-by-step video series with helpful resources

Check out the Product Design Sprint Kit

Figma Resources

Explore our plugins and templates published to the Figma community

Check out our Figma resources