What was GitHub programmed in?

The fundamental software that underpins GitHub is Git itself, written by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. The additional software that provides the GitHub user interface was written using Ruby on Rails and Erlang by GitHub, Inc. developers Wanstrath, Hyett, and Preston-Werner.

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How do I see stats on GitHub?

You can find the link to the left of the nav bar . You should have a look to repoXplorer, an open source project I develop. It is able to compute stats for a project (a group of git repositories) as well as for a contributor and a group of contributors. It provides a REST interface and a web UI.

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Can we pull reports from GitHub?

The feature lets users see what is happening across all projects on GitHub Enterprise in one place, from users and organizations to issues, pull requests, and code review comments . The Activity Dashboard compiles all this data and presents it in easy-to-read graphs, along with past data from the same time period.

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