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Re:The GitHub GraphQL API by brblck on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:49PM (#12500081)
Special shout out to the open-source contributors and members of the community who helped us build this:

https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

https://github.com/shopify/graphql-batch

https://github.com/github/graphql-client

https://github.com/graphql

We <3 your work and are thrilled to have built this with you!

Please make sure to give us feedback during this alpha stage! https://platform.github.community/

Re:The GitHub GraphQL API by mcx on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:24PM (#12500392)
Are you guys using rails w/ graphql-ruby? Would love to see a blog post with more details about the backend implementation!
Re:The GitHub GraphQL API by mst on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:08PM (#12500790)
The post links https://github.com/github/github-graphql-rails-example - "a small app built with Rails that demonstrates how you might interact with our GraphQL schema."
Re:The GitHub GraphQL API by jaredsohn on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:00PM (#12501176)
This just shows that they've made use of a graphql Rails client; the GP asked about the backend which could be in a different language.