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How “ruby on rails” trended on Hacker News

“Ruby on rails” was mentioned 28,251 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2013 with 245 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “ruby on rails” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
28,251
Peak month
Jan 2013 (245)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about “ruby on rails”

  1. 1.From Node to Ruby on Rails 941 points · 639 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 545 points · 281 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails 539 points · 175 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Why Ruby on Rails still matters 524 points · 458 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails 523 points · 519 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Ruby on Rails in a week 497 points · 171 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists 410 points · 220 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions 402 points · 205 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now? 370 points · 188 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative 351 points · 152 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails 350 points · 184 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Ask HN: How to price yourself? 329 points · 165 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN

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