Open source Ruby projects - Where to begin?

Question

Hi,

I am fairly new to the programming world (about a year) and have done some development in Rails, Ruby, JavaScript in past one year. Over this period I've found out that it "really" gives me joy to program on challenging problems and now I would "really" like to give back to the open source community for all that I've got in past one year.

Hence I'm looking for interesting open source Ruby projects to contribute on - any help / advise / pointers would be deeply appreciated!

For a free and better world!

Answer 1

In my experience it's most rewarding to contribute to software that you yourself use, so take a look at the gems and plugins you get the most use out of and see if you can contribute to any of those projects.

Answer 2

You could start by looking at the Ruby projects hosted on GitHub.

Answer 3

Learn to use github.

Github is the single, biggest thing that got me started doing open source ruby.

It's not just source control, but like they say "social coding"...

• Set up an account there
• Look around for small-ish sized projects that you find interesting and feel you might like to tweak.
• See if you can fork one of those projects to play around with...