Contributing to Ruby

2010-12-08

I had a very pleasant experience recently in contributing some net/http documentation improvements to Ruby. Ruby Core has made contributing very easy these days, it’s really as simple as:

• Fork http://github.com/ruby/ruby
• Make and commit your changes in your repo
• Send a pull request

In other words, contributing to Ruby is now just as easy to contribute to as any other Github project! This is a huge deal. Obviously there are caveats: if you are making significant changes to runtime code, you should probably enter an issue in Redmine and/or send an email to the ruby-dev mailing list. But for small cleanups and RDoc improvements that have been sorely missing for years, there’s no longer any excuse!