Hampton's Fourth Ruby Survey, 2012

We're on for year three of Hampton's Ruby Survey! Let's find out what's changed in the ruby community. What's gotten hotter, what's lost some steam?

This survey has been taken by 4692 people ever, and 305 people this year.

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Have you read the "pickaxe" book?

Have you read the "agile" rails book?

How long have you been programming ruby?

Less than a year
1-2 years
2-3 years
3+ years

What is your web framework of preference?

Rails
Merb
Sinatra
Other
No web work

What is your indentation preference?

Two Spaces
Hard Tab
Don't Care

Text editor of preference?

VIM
Emacs
Textmate
Eclipse Based
Other
Sublime

Is Ruby your primary language?

How would you rate your Ruby expertise?

Expert
Advanced
Average
Beginner
Barely Any

What are your thoughts on Haml?

I demand it
I prefer it
I don't use it
Hate it
What is it?
Don't Care

What Javascript framework do you prefer?

Prototype
jQuery
Moo
Other
None
Don't do JS

What are your thoughts on automated testing (Unit testing, etc)?

Required
Do it often
Don't do it

What are your thoughts on human testing?

Required
Do it often
Don't do it

What is your preferred Ruby interpreter?

MRI (standard)
JRuby
Rubinius
IronRuby
Other

What are your religious beliefs (feel free to leave empty)?

Monotheist
Polytheist
Agnostic
Atheist
New Age
Other

What version of Ruby are you currently using?

Have you contributed any open source code in the last year?

Have you built a GUI-based application/game?

What is your employment status?

Employed - Desk Job
Roving Contractor
Build my own apps exclusively

What is your revision control software of choice?

CVS
SVN
Git
Mercurial
Bazaar
Darcs
BitKeeper
Other
None

What is your preferred testing framework?

Test::Unit
RSpec
Cucumber
Shoulda
Steak
Riot
Other
I don't really test much

What do you find most important to test?

Unit Test Models
Browser Testing
Controller Integration Testing
View Tests
Other
I don't really test much

How much Javascript do you usually write?

A ton
Some
Rarely
Never. Avoid it.

What webserver do you use in production?

Mongrel
Passenger
Thin
Unicorn
Other

Do you use Sass?

Do you use CoffeeScript?

Which of the following technologies do you use most, if any?

Node.js
Go
Haskell
Python
Java (not JRuby)
Other JS frameworks/libs

Do you have NoSQL fever?

What is your preferred gender identity?

Woman
Man
Trans
Prefer not to say