SeoPapers - article Search Engine Data Reveals Ruby on Rails Popularity

Waltham, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 24, 2008 - Black Duck Software, has released data from its Koders.com search engine, showing a dramatic rise in Ruby programming popularity, according to the software development open source firm.

Tom Copeland, system administrator of RubyForge.org noted, ''Black Duck's search data confirms the tremendous growth that we are seeing within the community of Ruby developers. It's great to see a leading code search site like Koders.com index RubyForge because it represents another way to make the projects in our community available to tens of thousands of developers worldwide.''

Code search with Koders.com represents an essential part of the hybrid model of software development, which enables development teams to reuse open source in combination with their own code and other externally sourced components.

Tens of thousands of software developers use Black Duck's Koders.com daily to find open source code and other downloadable code. More Koders.com users are searching for Ruby code than ever before, according to the Black Duck analysis of Koders.com search requests. Ruby is now the fourth most requested language on Koders.com, after Java, C/C+ and C#.

The number of Ruby searches has increased by more than 20 times since 2004 and has surpassed alternatives, such as PHP, Python and Perl. In addition to code, Koders.com features other resources, such as a developer forum and a monthly statistics page, which lists the top monthly search terms, top projects and a solutions map for eleven popular programming languages ( www.koders.com/stats).

Ruby, used in combination with the Rails framework, is rapidly gaining momentum and will reach 4 million developers worldwide by 2013, according to Mark Driver, research vice president at Gartner Inc. Black Duck acquired Koders.com in April, and since then the company has enhanced the code search service significantly. Black Duck's team recently added over 200 million lines of code to the Koders.com search repository, increasing its size by more than 33 percent. The expanded code base now includes more code from SourceForge, CPAN and the industry's leading site for Ruby projects, RubyForge.org. Source: Gartner Inc., ''Open Source in Programming Languages, Mark Driver, 2008,'' 4-2-2008. ''Moreover, Ruby will enjoy a higher concentration among corporate IT developers than typical, dynamic 'scripting' languages, such as PHP,'' Mr. Driver continued.

Bill McQuaide, Executive Vice President of products and services at Black Duck Software remarked, ''Black Duck remains committed to providing Koders.com as a free service for developers involved in hybrid development. An interesting byproduct of the popularity of Koders.com is the insight we can gain from Koders.com users and the searches they conduct. In addition, this data show part of a larger story--how developers can use Black Duck's offerings to be more effective in using open source within the framework of sound code management practices.''

Hybrid development can make software development far more efficient and ultimately lead to better software applications. Black Duck offers solutions to ensure code is developed free of concerns raised by open source licenses, known security vulnerabilities or corporate policies regarding open source code usage. The company's offerings can manage the entire lifecycle of open source code use for developers.

Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world.

To learn more, please visit: www.blackducksoftware.com.

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