This is my response to a coding challenge. Below is the problem definition.
There once was a developer who started a company. As the company grew he had to find more and more like-minded engineers to join his mission to change the world. Being a technologist at heart, he thought the best place to find these types of engineers is where they live and breath - Github. He started by manually mining through profiles and projects to find the best engineers. Being a lazy engineer, he decided to automate this mundane task in a tool he called gitsucker. Here is a description of how he'd like the tool to work:
- Type in
gitsucker <project_name>(e.g.gitsucker backbone) - Find the git repo and all the Github users who forked the project
- Output statistics on each user including:
- Number of original projects authored
- Number of forked projects
- Number of Ruby and JavaScript projects (either authored or forked)
- Rank the list of Github members returned based on the statistics (you decide how to weigh the inputs)
- Output the information in a format that is easy to read