Comments on: Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git

By: Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:42:52 +0000

I just created a project for a Ruby clone of codeswarm:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ripary/

Here’s an example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZYP2_itFk

By: Open Source Software Apprentice - igvita.com

Open Source Software Apprentice - igvita.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:11:55 +0000

[...] merge” model, which both lowers the entry barrier and encourages experimentation. Visualization of Ruby on Rails contributions is a great example of this trend (with a big explosion in new contributors after the switch to Git, [...]

By: Michael Nielsen » How changing the technology of collaboration can change the nature of collaboration

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:36:31 +0000

[...] Ilya Grigorik recently pointed me to a great example which shows vividly how even relatively modest changes in the technology of collaboration can change the nature of collaboration. The example is from an open source project called Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a web development framework famous within the web development community - it’s been used to develop well-known sites such as twitter - but, unlike, say, Linux, it’s largely unknown outside its own community. The original developer of Ruby on Rails is a programmer named David Heinemeier Hansson who for a long time worked on the framework on his own, before other people gradually began to join him. [...]

By: GL Networks Inside » Berlin Ruby Crew Hard At Work Pushing Rails

GL Networks Inside » Berlin Ruby Crew Hard At Work Pushing Rails — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:06:06 +0000

[...] Ilya Grigorik just put up a nice visualization of the Rails commit history. [...]

By: Dev Blog AF83 » Blog Archive » Veille technologique : agilité, PHP, Rails, Git, Outils, Admin, Navigateurs, Javascript…

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:48:38 +0000

[...] http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/27/ruby-swarms-visualizing-rails-git/ : cette vidéo montre l’effet très positif que le passage à git et github a eu sur le framework Ruby on Rails [...]

By: git monthly links: 2009-01 « git blog

git monthly links: 2009-01 « git blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:54:05 +0000

[...] Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git: Different visualizations of github activity and Ruby on Rails project with codeswarm. [...]

By: tony petruzzi

tony petruzzi — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:48:27 +0000

what’s really amazing is seeing what a positive impact github has had on rails development. watching the rails swarm, everything was chugging along, slowly but nicely, and then when github launch (april 10, 2008) is when all hell breaks loose.

By: Datavisualization

Datavisualization — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:38:15 +0000

“Gitter” is visualizing GitHub with code_swarm…

Ilya Grigorik from igvita.com has created a visualization of the usage of GitHub. He used code_swarm to show the organic growth of a software developement process.
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By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:02:39 +0000

JGeiger, yep, I’m a big fan of glTail. UbiGraph is another interesting one to look at.

Eric, that looks awesome. Out of curiosity did you use the GitHub fork to render yours? I see some visual differences in how our videos rendered.

Kamal, that’s an interesting idea. It would be much simpler if Noria’s list included the handles as well, not just the full names. Another commenter on YC News also suggested adding tag overlays for big releases, which is a great idea.

By: elise

elise — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:14:54 +0000

Very nice ! I can see other interesting applications. The human brain groks data so much better when they are visualized.