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I have a Ruby on Rails project on Github. After I added Twitter Bootstrap and the Ace text editor to my project, Github started showing that my project is 85% JavaScript. I guess it is, but I didn't write all that JavaScript! So I'm a little skeptical about JavaScript being number 1 here.

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I wonder if they're doing any sort of de-duplication. Surely 1000s of instances of the same jquery, bootstrap, etc shouldn't count towards JavaScript's language total.

you added the entire bootstrap project to your repo?

I put the minified CSS and JS files under vendor/assets/. Is that not kosher?

As the number of external dependency(i.e bootstrap) increases, I find using something like bower very useful. It's probably not worth it for solo projects where bootstrap is the only external dependency

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