Contributing To Rails | Part 1

Writing this doc hoping people make Rails the best framework there is. The objective is to make you understand rails, use it, make it better.

It’s even the best framework now, no questions there.

Now coming to the contributing part, how can I add commits to rails repo. There is really good info on how you can contribute to rails on official rails website. These steps if you follow may help you in getting that first issue.

1. Look through the current issues in rails Github repo.
2. Carefully go through each one of them, see what interests you.
3. Now dig deeper into the issue first, and rails community is awesome they even have the reproduction scripts for any bugs submitted.
4. Now reproduce it on your local by creating an app or using the scripts.
5. Check the trace from where the bug is being caused from.
6. Now change the code, commit, make sure to add the test cases.
7. Now push it to your forked repo and create a PR.
8. Be patient till you get a comment from the core contributors, they are really helpful.

We will be covering atleast one issue in the next part of this article, Stay Tuned, thanks.