thoughtbot, inc.
74%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
22
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
Ruby
is the most common language here, with 23 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because one flagship repo drives 56% of its visible star count.
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In thoughtbot, inc.'s case, the visible top three repositories account for about 74% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is Ruby (16), Unknown (7), JavaScript (2). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | ⭐ Stars | 🍴 Forks | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thoughtbot/top_secret Filter sensitive information from free text before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs. | Ruby | 376 | 9 | 2 days ago |
| 2 | thoughtbot/rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill to run code audits | 76 | 4 | 2 weeks ago | |
| 3 | thoughtbot/roux A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling | CSS | 48 | 3 | 1 weeks ago |
| 4 | thoughtbot/test_budget Prevent slow tests from creeping into your suite. | Ruby | 44 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| 5 | thoughtbot/michel Find available time slots quickly with a materialized view. | Ruby | 30 | 2 | 1 weeks ago |
| 6 | thoughtbot/noisy-animals-kata A kata involving noisy animals designed for practice in improving code | JavaScript | 22 | 11 | 3 weeks ago |
| 7 | thoughtbot/duck_typer Enforce duck-typed interfaces in Ruby through your test suite. | Ruby | 21 | 2 | 1 months ago |
| 8 | thoughtbot/opentelemetry-instrumentation-ruby_llm OpenTelemetry instrumentation for RubyLLM. 💬🔭 | Ruby | 18 | 4 | 2 days ago |
| 9 | thoughtbot/candy_wrapper | JavaScript | 11 | 1 | 7 months ago |
| 10 | thoughtbot/generate-postman-collection This repo contains a Claude Skill that you can add to your Rails project to generate a postman collection from your codebase. | 9 | 0 | 2 weeks ago | |
| 11 | thoughtbot/data_customs A simple gem to help you perform data migrations in your Rails app. | Ruby | 6 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| 12 | thoughtbot/rails-consultant A collection of skills for Rails development and consulting with an emphasis on learning, communication, and client success. | Shell | 3 | 0 | 2 weeks ago |
| 13 | thoughtbot/argument_parser OptionParser's missing sibling. | Ruby | 3 | 0 | 4 days ago |
| 14 | thoughtbot/superglue_rails | Ruby | 2 | 1 | 4 days ago |
| 15 | thoughtbot/opentelemetry.io The OpenTelemetry website and documentation | 1 | 0 | 1 months ago | |
| 16 | thoughtbot/planck Atomic file writes for Ruby. | Ruby | 1 | 0 | 4 days ago |
| 17 | thoughtbot/shopping_list A superglue example | Ruby | 1 | 0 | 1 months ago |
| 18 | thoughtbot/ruby-asana Official Ruby client library for the Asana API v1 | Ruby | 1 | 1 | 1 years ago |
| 19 | thoughtbot/quranic-universal-library A comprehensive collection of Quran resources | 0 | 0 | 6 days ago | |
| 20 | thoughtbot/atomic-commits-plugin Claude Code plugin for atomic commit workflow and small PR nudges | Shell | 0 | 0 | 3 weeks ago |
| 21 | thoughtbot/ruby_llm One beautiful Ruby API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, VertexAI, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, GPUStack & OpenAI compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Images, Embeddings, Tools, Streaming & Rails integration. | 0 | 0 | 1 months ago | |
| 22 | thoughtbot/deepkit modular high-performance TypeScript framework | TypeScript | 0 | 0 | 2 months ago |
| 23 | thoughtbot/alba Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby. | Ruby | 0 | 0 | 4 days ago |
| 24 | thoughtbot/secrets_vault A vault for storing and retrieving secrets securely. | Ruby | 0 | 0 | 4 days ago |
| 25 | thoughtbot/TicTacToe | TypeScript | 0 | 0 | 9 months ago |
| 26 | thoughtbot/heroku-buildpack-chrome-for-testing Heroku classic buildpack that installs Chrome for Testing, keeping it updated on each build. | 0 | 0 | 10 months ago | |
| 27 | thoughtbot/codespaces-demo How do you run a Rails app in GitHub Codespaces? | Ruby | 0 | 0 | 2 months ago |
| 28 | thoughtbot/heroku-buildpack-snowflake-odbc-private-key Heroku Buildpack for unixODBC with the Snowflake driver installed | 0 | 0 | 1 years ago | |
| 29 | thoughtbot/testzed | Ruby | 0 | 0 | 1 years ago |
| 30 | thoughtbot/ai-in-focus Sample code from our video series, AI in Focus. | Ruby | 0 | 0 | 1 years ago |
How to Read This Snapshot
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