alindeman

> Dan Buch of Pittsburgh aka meatballhat suggested I contact you. I'm
> transitioning into Ruby and Rail from another completely unrelated profession
> and I'd like to contribute to open source projects as much as I can. I think
> it'll help me move beyond tutorials and books. I've gone through several of
> them already, including Michael Hartl's free tutorial as well as Pragmatic
> Programmers' Programming Ruby. Do you have any recommendations?

It’s great to hear that you want to contribute to open source! I had dreams of
contributing to Rails itself and maybe even become a regular contributor.
However, the framework code itself was completely overwhelming to me as someone