…applies cleanly to the current Rails source
Bring promising tickets to the attention of the Core team
All are welcome to participate. Even if you're new to Rails, you can lend a helping hand and learn some cool things, too.
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About a month ago I posted that not enough people are helping with Rails . If you're keen to get into it, come jump on irc.freenode.net # railsbridge where the May Bugmash is underway. I'll be around for the next couple of hours until I head to bed and all of tomorrow helping people out with issues. Come jump in!
People all around the world are getting together for this weekend's bugmash.
Here's a quick list of places that you can meet up with other Bugmash participants:
Relevance (Friday) Durham, NC - More Info
Cubox - Montevideo, Uruguay - I hear there will be food, drinks, and lots of Rock Band!
Peruvian Rails User Group - More Info
Singlebrook Technology, Inc. - 119 S. Cayuga St. Suite 202 Ithaca, NY - More Info
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I think the Bugmash events are freakin' awesome. But they only "piss on the fire". What we need is a concentrated stream (think Amazon River) to quell the beast of 900+ tickets . Donate some of your time to the Rails project. Spend a concerted amount of your spare time this week, and next week, and the week after that, going through the tickets and finding something you can help fix. Every little bit of effort helps.
The Rails core team has only so much effort …
This weekend during Rails Bugmash I stumbled across some nice posts about Rails 3 generators which motivated me to share them and add some comments!
Active Record Query Interface 3.0
I've been working on revamping the Active Record query interface for the last few weeks ( while taking some time off in India from consulting work, before joining 37signals ), building on top of Emilio's GSOC project of integrating ARel and ActiveRecord. So here's an …
…2 application to Rails 3, documentation, making plugins compatible or the traditional BugMash of clearing out tickets.
The BugMash over the weekend saw considerate participation, thanks to the likes of Peter Cooper promoting the event before. I saw people collaborating with each other to solve bugs and making libraries work with Rails 3. We all had a blast and were surprised to see so much impressive work and changes in Rails since last year . The BugMash…
Rails Bugmash 2010 (01/16/10) — Notes on how to get certain popular gems/plugins to run on Rails 3.
Notes from Rails 3 bugmash (01/17/10) — Another set of plugin/gem compatibility notes and Rails 3 discoveries.
Rails 3 Plugins and Gems — this wiki page lists major plugins and gems which have been verified to be Rails 3 compatible (or not).
Overall Architecture
The Path to Rails 3: Introduction (01/20/10) — A detailed description …
…contributions the more chances you have to win. For further details check out the Railsbridge Bugmash Guide and the RailsBridge Wiki .
Many bugs were fixed during the event, some plugins and gems were tested , really interesting discussions took place (specially regarding generators ) and some other articles were made. To mention some:
Making Generators for Rails 3 with Thor
Getting Started with the Rails 3 Bugmash
Getting …
Last night's fun: a failing hard drive. Fortunately I am obsessive about backups, so this is only nuisance, not disaster.
Discovering Rails 3 Generators - Jose Valim rounds up some of the info that came out during last weekend's BugMash.
Getting MacRuby's Compiler to Work - Came in handy when I went a bit install-happy with rvm yesterday.
…place this weekend ( January 16-17, 2010).. it's a Rails 3 focused BugMash! Fix a known issue with Rails 3.0, report a bug, test some gems or plugins, write some documentation.. there's a lot you can do to help with the next major release of Rails.
If you're new to the " BugMash" concept, this PDF guide gives you a run down of the concept and how to take part. This BugMash is a little different to usual, however, as you can choose …