[LRUG] Rails Rankings

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

There was a similar drive a year ago relating to http://railscities.com/

London got to number two.

2009/2/25 George Palmer <george.palmer at gmail.com>:
> Has anybody seen this site?  http://railsrankings.com  I wasn't aware
> of it until today but the top cities list on the right hand side
> caught my eye.  London is currently 3rd but only 2 cities in the top
> 10 are outside the US.  Now look at the coder numbers - London has
> more than anywhere else.  Whilst this info can't be relied on to be
> 100% accurate it does highlight an interesting trend - are we (London
> ruby coders) either a) slack or b) not promoting ourselves and each
> other enough? (or potentially c) something else I've overlooked)
>
> With that in mind, as I don't believe we're slacking over here, I'd
> like to encourage lrugers to recommend (on workingwithrails) others
> they've worked with/seen present at a conference/used their code.  Now
> don't get me wrong, I don't think we should game the system and
> randomly follow others we don't know but if you've worked with
> somebody, been impressed by a presentation they've done or use one of
> their gems I think it's fair game to recommend them.  If nothing else,
> and everyone else is already doing this, then ignore me whilst I head
> off to workingwithrails and catch up!
>
> --
> George Palmer
> Freelance Developer
> http://rowtheboat.com
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