Tango and Autolab

There are actually two distinct pieces to Autolab. There's the front-facing Rails app that handles all the business logic of manging users, collecting information, entering and displaying grades, giving feedback to students, and more. Then there's also a service called Tango that manages everything having to do with autograding.

The Tango service is actually a standalone, RESTful application written in Python. It lives on GitHub as well. Tango needs to be deployed alongside Autolab so that student submissions can be autograded.

Because we like to move quickly, Tango is always changing. For the most up-to-date installation instructions and documentation, jump on over to the Tango repository, and be sure to also check out the Tango Wiki.