How to start contributing to the Rails code?

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Hello,

My name is Lucas, and I’m an undergraduate Computer Science student at University of São Paulo, in Brazil. This semester, I am studying Free Software Development, and I need to choose a free software project and contribute to its development, and I’ve chosen Rails, because I have some experience developing web services with it.

I would like to know how can I start to contribute, if there are issues that are tagged as “for beginners”, or if there’s another way to beginners start contributing to the source code.

Thanks.

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By writing code. Seriously, look at the open issues and fix some bugs

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You can find all information about contributing here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html

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First try: https://github.com/rails/rails/labels/good-first-patch

If you can’t find anything to contribute to Rails (since it’s a very complex project), try and look for another OS software to contribute to.

Try this: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

Good luck with your task!