%0 Conference Paper %B Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Crowd-based Software Development Methods and Technologies %D 2014 %T Investigating Social Media in GitHub's Pull-requests: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails %A Zhang, Yang %A Yin, Gang %A Yu, Yue %A Wang, Huaimin %K @-mention %K github %K pull-request %K social media %X In GitHub, pull-request mechanism is an outstanding social development method by integrating with many social media. Many studies have explored that social media has an important effect on software development. @-mention as a typical social media, is a useful tool in social platform. In this paper, we made a quantitative analysis of @-mention in pull-requests of the project Ruby on Rails. First, we make a convictive statistics of the popularity of pull-request mechanism in GitHub. Then we investigate the current situation of @-mention in the Ruby on Rails. Our empirical analysis results find some insights of @-mention. %B Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Crowd-based Software Development Methods and Technologies %S CrowdSoft 2014 %I ACM %C New York, NY, USA %P 37–41 %@ 978-1-4503-3224-8 %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2666539.2666572 %R 10.1145/2666539.2666572