Where do the hottest rails programmers sleep?

Working With Rails is a community site for rails developers. We all put our stats there (to some greater or lesser degree). When I come across someone new I go to WWR to see their info. One of the cool things on the WWR site is the Top 100 Popular list. This is a source of amusement for those of us in the community. If you look at the list, you will see that I am currently number 42 and Allan is number 61.

I've always wondered which are the hottest cities for rails development. Surely the answer is Chicago, because David (1) lives there, but the other cities? San Fransisco, Seattle, San Diego, Jacksonville? Jacksonville? Yes, Jacksonville. We decided to find out, so we created Rails Cities.

This one page site looks at the WWR Popular page and sorts it based on city. The cities are ranked based on the number of people who are on the popular list. If two cities are tied, the lowest cumulative ranking bewteen the the two cities wins. Looking at the list it becomes apparent that many on this list do not keep their address current, hopefully they will now. We get the data and regenerate the page every night. That's it. Enjoy it.

Oh, and where does Jacksonville place? Currently number five; behind Chicago.

3 Comments

Brennan said on May 20, 2008

I didn’t even know float had an Infinity value in Ruby. o_O

Jörn Zaefferer said on May 21, 2008

Looks like you need to set the proper encoding (aka charset), eg. São Paulo is screwed.

Steven Bristol said on May 21, 2008

@Jörn,

Thanks. Fixed now.

steve