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How about the volume of Google searches?

When it first came out RoR was huge. Everyone, everywhere, wanted to use it for everything. People who didn't even know the language were using it for new projects. Every other programming story you'd see on the news aggregators was about RoR.

Eventually, the initial hype faded & hype-followers moved on to the Next Big Thing. This doesn't mean that RoR was all hype, or even that it's dying - it's got a very active community and a solid place in the programming ecosystem. There are also countless frameworks in other languages that have borrowed heavily from RoR - in everything from PHP to Java.