# How many rails developers are out there?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 2, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150 "2007-10-02T23:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dorren)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150/1 "2007-10-02T23:19:16Z")

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Just out of curiosity, how many rails developers are out there  
worldwide? Google groups shows 11000 members, is that number about  
right?

Dorren  
[http://groups.wuyasea.com/profile/dorren](http://groups.wuyasea.com/profile/dorren)

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**Author:** ![Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dorren)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150/2 "2007-10-03T00:07:50Z")

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On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Dorren wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, how many rails developers are out there  
> worldwide? Google groups shows 11000 members, is that number about  
> right?
> 
> Dorren  
> [http://groups.wuyasea.com/profile/dorren](http://groups.wuyasea.com/profile/dorren)

There are really only 97 of us, but we each have hundreds of email  
addresses to frustrate the spammers. Rails just allows us to be so  
productive that it seems like there are 11,000 of us out there.

-Rob

Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dorren)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150/3 "2007-10-03T00:10:46Z")

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> productive that it seems like there are 11,000 of us out there.  
> 97? That doesn’t seem very DRY…

🙂

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**Author:** ![Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dorren](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dorren)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-many-rails-developers-are-out-there/116150/4 "2007-10-03T04:14:43Z")

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On 10/2/07, Philip H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> 97? That doesn’t seem very DRY…

42, of course.