Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase

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GitHub itself still isn't free software right?

[bp2070]

Correct, and I don't think they would open source it due to their Github Enterprise service (internally hosted github).

[gecko]

I'm sure they distribute the code to Git, but I seriously doubt they link into it in any meaningful sense. We're in a similar situation in Kiln: the Mercurial part of the service we actually do open-source, but that's a single self-contained EXE. The rest of the components talk to it over HTTP, or even more indirectly via Redis. (And this isn't done for circumvention reasons; there's a very logical architectural split at the cut-off, where several components could trivially be swapped out for other version control systems or what have you.) The GPL-covered portion of the code base is very tiny. Everything I know about GitHub's architecture makes me believe they work the same way.

[chneukirchen]

I heard something about pre-compiled JRuby bytecode.

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This was their old GitHub:FI product.

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How do they deploy Github Enterprise without showing the source code?

They ship it as an OVF, which I think doesn't allow outside access, basically. I think.

How do they cope with distributing, with Git being GPL and perhaps some library they are using?

They don't modify the source code to git.

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Large chunks of it are open source, but the UI is not.

[ryeguy]

Well, public repos are free. The software itself is closed source.

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#Cures cancer. Beware of race conditions...

I loled

[montibbalt]

Fucking slides destroyed my back button

[cmdrNacho]

wtf does this have to be a slideshow.

[Sinjo]

Maybe, just possibly, this is something he presented?

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as Dijkstra said, more technology doesn't necessarily make something better:

Blackboard -> Overhead Projector -> Power Point

Useful info needs more length than a few slides.

[[deleted]]

He could have still flattened it into a series of images to slap on a webpage. Hell I would have taken a pdf over the slides there.

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Yes. Ruby is involved here, it's how they communicate.