2013 Rails Rumble Gem Teardown

Hi guys. I just finished writing up my analysis of the gems used in the 2013 Rails Rumble:

http://www.dwellable.com/blog/Rails-Rumble-Gem-Teardown

The Rails Rumble organizers were kind enough to let me look at the Gemfiles submitted by 221 teams. I spent a couple of days digging into the data. I was able to answer questions like:

  • Are people turning off turbolinks?

  • Haml vs. Slim - fight!

  • Is anyone using Javascript MVC with Rails?

Discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641413