Ruby Survey: 6 Years of Data Revealed
summary
Six years of a recurring Ruby Survey release raw numbers and site data for the first time, with the first run showing 1200 respondents in 2008 and gaps where surveys weren’t sent. Findings: Rails >75% as the dominant web framework, Ruby versions migrate from 1.8/1.9 toward 2.x, editors shift with Vim usage growing while Sublime/Atom rise, 77% use Sass and CoffeeScript is ~50%, Elasticsearch enters at ~15% when included, and 86% say the Ruby community is on the right track; full dataset and rebuilt site go live.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Who am I
- 3:03Trip to the Past
- 3:55Ruby Survey 2008
- 5:37Ruby Survey 2009
- 8:10Pickaxe Book
- 9:58Gender Breakdown
- 11:18Job Titles
- 12:32Conference Attendance
- 14:07Employment Type
- 16:58Text Editor
- 19:14Sass
- 21:33Ruby
- 22:18Rails
- 24:51JRuby
- 26:36TestUnit
- 28:20Web Servers
- 29:27No Sequel Database
- 30:29Elastic Search
- 32:57JavaScript
- 35:58jQuery
- 37:37Prototype
- 38:36MVC Framework
- 40:20JavaScript Usage
- 42:12Ruby Usage
- 43:57JavaScript Flavor
- 44:54Domain Name Problems
- 47:51Project D
