Ruby on Rails developer survey results

Content:

Ruby is not super widely used language, but it is still used. Here are the results of a survey among RoR developers.

Main points:

US is by far the biggest country with 40%
The average RoR developer has 10-13 years of RoR experience and the average RoR application has been in production 7-10 years [indicating that RoR topped in the early 10's]
More RoR developers are self taught codes than have a CS degree [surprise!]
Most RoR teams are small <= 15
Most are using recent Rails 7.x and Ruby 3.x [so they do update]
Micro-services are dominant architecture
Majority contribute to open source [I am pretty the group of survey participants and non-participants are different in thsi regard]
Stimulus.js has replaced Recat as most used JavaScript framework
Yarn is more common than npm to manage JavaScript
Rspec i smost common test framework
CD is widely used
nginx is most widely used web server
Puma is the most used app server
Most are hosting code at Github
PostgreSQL is number one database, MySQL is number two [hardly surprising]
Most develop on macOS [given that most use conatiners then we can assume that most deploy on Linux]
VS Code is the most popular editor [no surprise]

Relative few surprises. It confirmed all my prejudices against RoR. :-)