I really like the gist of this! I am especially curious to the particular
roadblocks in place why people wouldn''t have upgraded their app to
Rails 3 yet.
I think it would be great to track trends such as what testing frameworks people
are using as well as authentication libraries.
Putting this up on a Google doc would be handy, as I think that''s how
Hampton Catlin does the Ruby users surveys. Perhaps you could ask him for tips?
On 22/12/2010, at 17:01, zilkey <jeff@zilkey.com> wrote:
> Is anyone currently working on a Rails survey of any kind? alistapart
> put together a great survey (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/
> 2007surveyresults) but I haven''t heard about anything
Rails-related.
>
> I know there was a fundraiser for documentation a while back, and the
> results are awesome. I would definitely donate to an effort to create
> a well-crafted, quantitative survey about the Rails ecosystem. I
> would also spend 20 minutes filling it out. The alistapart survey was
> just about the right length, but while it was about the people,
I''d
> like to know more about the tech:
>
> - current rails versions
> - where the apps are hosted
> - development editors / IDEs
> - gem management
> - rvm usage
> - ruby versions / interpreters / vm
> - databases / persistence layers
> - plans to upgrade to 3, if not why not
> - likes / dislikes in the codebase
> - perceptions of the upgrade process (easy/hard, high value / low
> value)
> - deployment strategies
> - gems / plugins in use
> - logging / monitoring tools
> - traffic / load (high volume / low volume, large / small datasets
> etc...)
> - industry / content area
>
> Of course, it could also cover things about people:
>
> - whether they''ve submitted a patch to rails
> - whether a patch was accepted
> - whether they''ve written docs
> - whether they''ve attended conferences
>
> But I''m personally less interested in that. I think this kind of
data
> would be helpful as rails moves forward, especially as it relates to
> the tech specs of rails apps in the wild.
>
> I''ve seen the hosting Survey (http://rails-hosting.com/Results/
> SurveySummary.html) but I was thinking of something more independent
> and ambitious. Maybe one we could repeat every year.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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