Thanks for the slide deck, I hadn't seen that before. For bugs to fix and general issues I recommend http://www.codetriage.com/rails/rails (though I wrote the original version of it)
You could also start with documentation, find gaps in the methods already documented in Rails or in the Rails guides. Maybe find a bunch of methods documented in a file and find one with missing an example. For finding things to fix I keep a pretty informal "pain journal" and whenever I do something in Ruby/Rails that was painful or not intuitive the first time I make a note of it. If I see others have the same pain, i'll try to dig in and find a way to fix it or make it better. Working with beginner groups like Railsgirls helps find pain points fairly easily. While technical in nature, this talk walks through a PR I made in Rails, how I broke down the problem and eventually submitted a PR video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2oUU4qDnY slides: https://speakerdeck.com/schneems/dissecting-ruby-with-ruby. -- Richard Schneeman On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Kyle Rippey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I attended a good talk at RailsConf 2013 which inspired me to start > contributing to Rails as well. It gives some good guidance on where to > start and what to expect during the process. > > Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEB6H8jAzIg > Slides: > https://speakerdeck.com/markmcspadden/railsconf-2013-your-first-rails-pull-request > > As far as specific things to start working on, I'm sure others on here > will be able to offer better guidance than I can. > > Kyle > > > > On Saturday, September 21, 2013 8:50:37 AM UTC-7, Lee Hampton wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I'm an NYC based rails developer, and I'm interested in getting into >> contributing to the Rails code base. Just diving right in can be a little >> bit scary, so if anyone is willing to give me some guidance on good first >> bugs to tackle or features they need help with, I'd be eternally grateful! >> >> Best, >> >> Lee >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
