rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later
in terms of forks nodejs is half the popularity of rails, but I wish more contributors for nodejs
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking
was the norm , watching came lot later
(I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)
If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000
My contributions for example were pre rails 1.0 days so my part of that number isn't really meaningful to current popularity.