Some Ruby on Rails Plugin Stats

04 Feb 2008 | Tags ruby rails programming plugins

There are now almost 1000 entries in the main resource for Ruby on Rails plugins, Agile Web Development’s Plugins Directory. Of these, 596 have repositories listed that are accessible. I wanted to see how many of these plugins came with some form of tests, so I created a spider (using a web spider library) and performed some basic analysis on each repository.

After reading a few magazines, and watching two entire TV shows, the spider came back with a result: 54% of the plugins have tests.

It’s amazing to think that there’s almost 1000 plugins in one directory, and a good proportion have tests amongst those I could easily analyse.