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Ruby on Rails

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Ruby on Rails's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
Ruby on Rails%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: rails
0102030406 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug7 Sept21 Sept5 Oct19 Oct
rails

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Ruby on Rails. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 4
  2. 17 Aug 2
  3. 24 Aug 1
  4. 31 Aug 2
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 2
  7. 21 Sept 1
  8. 28 Sept 1
  9. 5 Oct 2
  10. 12 Oct 1
  11. 19 Oct 1
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]432 pts · 488 comments · 23 Sept
  2. What About Rails?328 pts · 222 comments · 25 Sept
  3. Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch113 pts · 35 comments · 4 Sept
  4. Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era75 pts · 76 comments · 21 Oct
  5. Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?73 pts · 77 comments · 19 Oct
  6. How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails30 pts · 7 comments · 31 Aug
  7. Rails 8 Guide: Features, Requirements and Upgrade Path (2026)22 pts · 4 comments · 9 Sept
  8. Agents on Rails: Best model solves 35% of feature benchmark runs18 pts · 4 comments · 11 Sept

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