Rails Rankings Formula

Our Formula for Success

RailsRankings uses a unique point system to reward coders. The points for coders within each city or company are then totaled to achieve their respective ranks.

Top Cities

  1. San Francisco (307 coders 5,030,171 points)
  2. Portland (107 coders 2,309,038 points)
  3. London (337 coders 2,119,223 points)
  4. Chicago (209 coders 1,276,161 points)
  5. Melbourne (101 coders 1,200,683 points)
  6. New York City (205 coders 1,103,352 points)
  7. Berlin (118 coders 1,044,312 points)
  8. Atlanta (106 coders 960,551 points)
  9. Boston (142 coders 936,650 points)
  10. Seattle (124 coders 590,441 points)
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Top Companies

  1. Err Free (1 coder 1,758,483 points)
  2. ENTP (5 coders 1,631,463 points)
  3. Self Employed (270 coders 1,403,710 points)
  4. GitHub (2 coders 1,319,560 points)
  5. ThoughtWorks (65 coders 581,583 points)
  6. Engine Yard (42 coders 504,871 points)
  7. HASHROCKET (26 coders 493,995 points)
  8. Freelance (11 coders 416,227 points)
  9. Intridea (18 coders 400,147 points)
  10. Pivotal Labs (28 coders 268,302 points)
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Top GitHub Repos

  1. will_paginate (2,266 watchers 566,500 points)

    Adaptive pagination plugin for web frameworks and other applications

  2. restful-authentication (2,219 watchers 554,750 points)

    Generates common user authentication code for Rails/Merb, with a full test/unit and rspec suite and optional Acts as State Machine support built-in.

  3. formtastic (2,107 watchers 526,750 points)

    A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. It's deliciously close to 1.0!

  4. cucumber (1,887 watchers 471,750 points)

    BDD that talks to domain experts first and code second

  5. jekyll (1,529 watchers 382,250 points)

    Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby

  1. scriptaculous (1,484 watchers 371,000 points)

    script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework for visual effects and interface behaviours.

  2. rspec (1,462 watchers 365,500 points)

    Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby

  3. delayed_job (1,269 watchers 317,250 points)

    Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify

  4. whenever (1,231 watchers 307,750 points)

    Provides clean ruby syntax for defining messy cron jobs and running them Whenever.

  5. attachment_fu (1,132 watchers 283,000 points)

    Treat an ActiveRecord model as a file attachment, storing its patch, size, content type, etc.

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