[LRUG] Coding meetup

[Keith McDonnell]

On 23/05/11 22:04, chat-request at lists.lrug.org wrote:
>> >  what do you have in mind here? downloading and indexing all the data, or
>> >  just brokering and aggregating api calls? Sphinx might be a good option for
>> >  the former, I've worked with it a bit.
>> >
>> >  That's a good question, the github API is rate limited to something like 60
> per hour (or was when I last checked).

The API rate is 60 per minute: http://develop.github.com/p/general.html

Should be enough for us seeing as there are 589 UK rubyists on github:
https://github.com/search?type=Users&language=ruby&q=location%3AUK&repo=&langOverride=&x=0&y=0&start_value=1

Once we have the dataset, we can save it to prevent further requests.