On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 06:51, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have an idea how many professional Rails developers are out there > at the moment? Is it tens of thousands? Hundreds? I know it is way more than > thousands, because RailsConf sells out every year, and that's just the US. > I'm procrastinating from writing a proposal, where I want to give a rationale > for using Rails, and the width and depth of the developer community is a > tremendous selling point. I'd like to quantify it without completely making > something up.
IME, conferences are more for marketers than developers. That said, a lower bound can be obtained using the unique author count on the git repository, which, as of now, is 4465, given by 'git log --pretty=format:'%an' | sort | uniq | wc -l' on most Unix systems. A more accurate count can be obtained by checking out some popular plugins and summing up their counts as well. It'll still be an undercount, but it may work for your purposes. Just be sure to place your method in your slides. -- H -- OpenPGP: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 If you wish to request my time, please do so using bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. Si vous voudrais faire connnaisance, allez a bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. Sent from my mobile device Envoye de mon portable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAP%2BbYWCc%2BjgobtcNEOhdWTet-b1W2vXK-Sjh2Emzs3XJLrQQLw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
