Dear Railers,
for my bachelor's thesis I would like to research adoption factors
regarding the use of Ruby On Rails. To do this, I need to have
responses from at least 100 RoR companies and I'm wondering if you
could pinpoint me in the right direction to set this up. In the coming
weeks I will have to develop a website where companies/programmers can
fill in the survey, so I can analyze the results later on. I would
like to have as many responses as possible and therefore my question
to you is, are you willing to participate in such a survey?
The purpose of my study is to find out what technical and non-
technical motivations are present among companies to use RoR. Since
there is no (recent) publication on this topic, I'm really really
hoping a lot of you are willing to help me out.
Please reply with your thoughts on this research.
Kind regards,
Michel B
I've only just started to push RoR commerically, but I'd be happy to
participate if my input is useful 
I believe all of your input is useful I need as much feedback as
possible to make the results more valid. I'm not quite sure how to
promote this survey. Should I set up a website where people can fill
in the survey and be listed on the site as a direct reward? Should I
contact RoR blogs/sites in order to promote the survey? Which sites
should I consider?
I'm also eager to know what are the barriers or hesitations from
people that don't want to participate.
If you want to participate, please send an email to
m.barbosa@cicaboo.com and state your contact information (company
name, email address and perhaps other useful contact information).
Please reply to this topic if you have any feedback whatsoever.
Thanks a lot guys
That is m DOT barbosa AT cicaboo DOT com
I think what would maybe be useful and give more back to the RoR community,
is to do as you say and set up a survey website, but also allow the
inclusion of case studies. That way companies get listed, and visitors
learn about RoR in action. Seems like you could kill a few birds with one
stone
