

The survey also asked the size of development teams for "your primary Rails application." Yet the most popular editor was Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (used by 32% of respondents), followed by Vim-based editors (21%), Sublime (16%), RubyMine (15%), Atom (9%), Emacs (3%), and TextMate (2%). Most of the developers surveyed feel Rails is still relevant, although they were split on whether or not the Rails core team is moving in the right direction, with 48% totally agreeing with that sentiment.Īccording to the results, 24% of survey respondents primarily developing on Linux, while 73% used Mac OS X ( leaving just 3% using Windows or "Other"). Rails developers overwhelmingly choose lightweight solutions like jQuery over larger frameworks. The typical Rails developer is self-taught, has been working with Rails 4-7 years, and works remotely. 's developer newsletter summarized some of the results: Some of these questions have been asked since our original survey over a decade ago, and show how the community has evolved over the last twelve years. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020.

This week saw the release of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results:Ģ,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives.
