#rails

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rails from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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9
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
8
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.5
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:42 UTC
4
10-08
1
10-09
3
10-10
0
10-11
0
10-12
1
10-13
0
10-14

9 uses by 8 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:42 UTC
#rails_world
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#railstotrails
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#rails2026
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#RubyOnRails
9 uses · 7 accounts / 7d
#rails_community
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#railsworld
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#railstation
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#railshooter
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#railsworld2026
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#rails_world_2026
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#Railservice
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#railsafetytechnology
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 21:42 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~482 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (38) · Catalan (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.8

Top of the latest posts

  • Without hesitation I'll repeat that @josevalim is one of my favourite tech people. #ai #llm #programming #technology #ruby #rails #rubyonrails

    alexanderadam@[email protected]♥ 6↻ 52026-09-27 16:14 UTCView post →

  • Bookmarking this for posterity 🔖 "This is one of the reasons I love working in Rust. I don't know any Rust at all. I consider that a feature. Yes!. And a privilege to have no fucking clue what is being outputted by these agents into the Ru

    Ricardo Martín :bsdhead:@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 02026-09-24 20:55 UTCView post →

  • Finally got to watching the much-discussed DHH's Rails World 2026 keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY&t=360s). I get that many people are kind of depressed after watching it, but it's pretty much in line with everything I'v

    Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)@[email protected]♥ 3↻ 42026-09-27 07:24 UTCView post →

What “rails” means

Wiktionary

rails/ɹeɪlz/

  • nounA horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
  • verbTo travel by railway.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

#rails across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #rails straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/rails