Is anyone currently working on a Rails survey of any kind? alistapart put together a great survey (Articles – A List Apart 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?
