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diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md index 39f4272b3c..967c992c05 100644 --- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know: * How to contribute to the Ruby on Rails documentation. * How to contribute to the Ruby on Rails code. -Ruby on Rails is not "someone else's framework." Over the years, hundreds of people have contributed to Ruby on Rails ranging from a single character to massive architectural changes or significant documentation - all with the goal of making Ruby on Rails better for everyone. Even if you don't feel up to writing code or documentation yet, there are a variety of other ways that you can contribute, from reporting issues to testing patches. +Ruby on Rails is not "someone else's framework." Over the years, thousands of people have contributed to Ruby on Rails ranging from a single character to massive architectural changes or significant documentation - all with the goal of making Ruby on Rails better for everyone. Even if you don't feel up to writing code or documentation yet, there are a variety of other ways that you can contribute, from reporting issues to testing patches. As mentioned in [Rails' README](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/README.md), everyone interacting in Rails and its sub-projects' codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the Rails [code of conduct](http://rubyonrails.org/conduct/). @@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ discussions new features require. Helping to Resolve Existing Issues ---------------------------------- -As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: +As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing ones by providing feedback about them. If you are new to Rails core development, that might be a great way to walk your first steps, you'll get familiar with the code base and the processes. + +If you check the [issues list](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues) in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: ### Verifying Bug Reports @@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ For starters, it helps just to verify bug reports. Can you reproduce the reporte If an issue is very vague, can you help narrow it down to something more specific? Maybe you can provide additional information to help reproduce a bug, or help by eliminating needless steps that aren't required to demonstrate the problem. -If you find a bug report without a test, it's very useful to contribute a failing test. This is also a great way to get started exploring the source code: looking at the existing test files will teach you how to write more tests. New tests are best contributed in the form of a patch, as explained later on in the "Contributing to the Rails Code" section. +If you find a bug report without a test, it's very useful to contribute a failing test. This is also a great way to get started exploring the source code: looking at the existing test files will teach you how to write more tests. New tests are best contributed in the form of a patch, as explained later on in the "[Contributing to the Rails Code](#contributing-to-the-rails-code)" section. Anything you can do to make bug reports more succinct or easier to reproduce helps folks trying to write code to fix those bugs - whether you end up writing the code yourself or not. @@ -141,14 +143,15 @@ NOTE: To help our CI servers you should add [ci skip] to your documentation comm Translating Rails Guides ------------------------ -We are happy to have people volunteer to translate the Rails guides into their own language. -If you want to translate the Rails guides in your own language, follows these steps: +We are happy to have people volunteer to translate the Rails guides. Just follow these steps: -* Fork the project (rails/rails). +* Fork https://github.com/rails/rails. * Add a source folder for your own language, for example: *guides/source/it-IT* for Italian. * Copy the contents of *guides/source* into your own language directory and translate them. * Do NOT translate the HTML files, as they are automatically generated. +Note that translations are not submitted to the Rails repository. As detailed above, your work happens in a fork. This is so because in practice documentation maintenance via patches is only sustainable in English. + To generate the guides in HTML format cd into the *guides* directory then run (eg. for it-IT): ```bash @@ -163,11 +166,11 @@ NOTE: The instructions are for Rails > 4. The Redcarpet Gem doesn't work with JR Translation efforts we know about (various versions): * **Italian**: [https://github.com/rixlabs/docrails](https://github.com/rixlabs/docrails) -* **Spanish**: [http://wiki.github.com/gramos/docrails](http://wiki.github.com/gramos/docrails) -* **Polish**: [https://github.com/apohllo/docrails/tree/master](https://github.com/apohllo/docrails/tree/master) +* **Spanish**: [https://github.com/gramos/docrails/wiki](https://github.com/gramos/docrails/wiki) +* **Polish**: [https://github.com/apohllo/docrails](https://github.com/apohllo/docrails) * **French** : [https://github.com/railsfrance/docrails](https://github.com/railsfrance/docrails) * **Czech** : [https://github.com/rubyonrails-cz/docrails/tree/czech](https://github.com/rubyonrails-cz/docrails/tree/czech) -* **Turkish** : [https://github.com/ujk/docrails/tree/master](https://github.com/ujk/docrails/tree/master) +* **Turkish** : [https://github.com/ujk/docrails](https://github.com/ujk/docrails) * **Korean** : [https://github.com/rorlakr/rails-guides](https://github.com/rorlakr/rails-guides) * **Simplified Chinese** : [https://github.com/ruby-china/guides](https://github.com/ruby-china/guides) * **Traditional Chinese** : [https://github.com/docrails-tw/guides](https://github.com/docrails-tw/guides) @@ -183,7 +186,7 @@ To move on from submitting bugs to helping resolve existing issues or contributi #### The Easy Way -The easiest and recommended way to get a development environment ready to hack is to use the [Rails development box](https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box). +The easiest and recommended way to get a development environment ready to hack is to use the [rails-dev-box](https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box). #### The Hard Way @@ -323,7 +326,7 @@ file. #### Testing Active Record -First, create the databases you'll need. You can find a list of the required +First, create the databases you'll need. You can find a list of the required table names, usernames, and passwords in `activerecord/test/config.example.yml`. For MySQL and PostgreSQL, running the SQL statements `create database @@ -479,7 +482,7 @@ Navigate to the Rails [GitHub repository](https://github.com/rails/rails) and pr Add the new remote to your local repository on your local machine: ```bash -$ git remote add mine https://github.com:<your user name>/rails.git +$ git remote add mine https://github.com/<your user name>/rails.git ``` Push to your remote: @@ -553,7 +556,7 @@ is the open source life. If it's been over a week, and you haven't heard anything, you might want to try and nudge things along. You can use the [rubyonrails-core mailing -list](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/) for this. You can also +list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubyonrails-core) for this. 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