That's incorrect, you're looking at user "1" which is here: https://github.com/1 https://github.com/1 The "created_at": "2012-06-07T06:10:07Z" also gives it aw

That's incorrect, you're looking at user "1" which is here: https://github.com/1 https://github.com/1 The "created_at": "2012-06-07T06:10:07Z" also gives it away. i.e., my profile is here: https://api.github.com/users/diziet https://api.github.com/users/diziet Also, numerical profile ids in URLs are more of a SQL thing rather than rails.