# thoughtbot/refills

[no longer maintained]

Repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/refills
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/refills
Homepage: http://refills.bourbon.io
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bourbon, refills, snippets, bourbon-family, css, sass, scss, front-end, components
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-03-02T14:08:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4668, "days_push": 3106, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1487, forks 135 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.013535+00:00)

## What it is
Refills is a collection of pre-built UI components and patterns written in Sass, built on the Bourbon and Neat frameworks. Users copy-paste snippets from the website or import them via Rails generators, customizing them with Sass variables.

## Use cases
- find ready-made css ui components to copy into a project
- get accordion and tabs snippets built with bourbon and neat
- add prebuilt sass patterns to a ruby on rails app
- quickly scaffold frontend components without a full framework
- customize component look and feel with sass variables

## When to choose
- you already use Bourbon 5+ and Neat 1.x and want drop-in snippets
- you want copy-paste components rather than a heavy framework dependency
- you maintain a legacy Rails app already using the Bourbon family

## When to avoid
- starting a new project, since the project is no longer maintained
- you use Neat 2.0, which is incompatible
- you need maintained components, accessibility support, or vendor prefixes out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: sass, scss, bourbon, neat, snippets, copy-paste-components, ruby-on-rails, no-longer-maintained, web-server

## Member repositories
- thoughtbot/refills (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.013535+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:49.508478+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thoughtbot/refills (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.013535+00:00, sha 3755757f3d08)
  - homepage: http://refills.bourbon.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:51.564604+00:00, sha 4e8c2a8fb537)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.