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How do you know there's been a massive uptake when you don't have any numbers? Aren't you just guessing?

I'm pretty involved in the ruby community, and I've generally seen an increase in people talking about using it. Also with the Rails 3 release, lots of people were waiting to do one big massive upgrade of both Ruby and Rails at the same time. It's been long enough now that lots of people have moved their projects over.

Like I said, I have no numbers, so fundamentally it is just a guess.

That's correct it's just a guess.

And of course this is just a guess too - "It's been long enough now that lots of people have moved their projects over."

Maybe we could step from wag to anecdote if there has been a straw poll at some recent Ruby conference asking which version the attendees were using?

It's a guess, but if you're part of the community (and I am) it's at least an educated guess :) I'm developing in Ruby 1.9 as well.

If you say that you're using Ruby 1.9 then not wanting to be quarrelsome that's good enough for me to accept that you are using Ruby 1.9.

And I'll grant that you're part of the community on your say so.

But being "part of the community" doesn't magically enfuse you with knowledge about what proportion of the community is using what version of Ruby. To be educated about that is to count the numbers.

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