The popularity rating of rsxml explained

Github Repository Rubygem
The highest rated repository is rails/rails with 22249 watchers and 8279 forks, resulting in a Github score of 100.00 The highest rated Rubygem is rake with 50802764 total downloads
Now, the repository for rsxml over at mccraigmccraig/rsxml has got 2 watchers and 0 forks, resulting in a Github score of 0.00 Now, the gem rsxml has got 8294 total downloads
Therefore, the relative popularity percentage can be calculated for rsxml
0.00 watchers & forks * 100% = 0.00%
100.00 top score
8294 total downloads * 100% = 0.02%
50802764 top score
The average of those two values results in the score:


So, assuming everyone is using the most popular projects,
roughly one out of 100 Rubyists use rsxml


