Contributing to Ruby and An Introduction to JRuby

Contributing to Ruby

Newcomer or seasoned veteran looking to get involved with Ruby documentation? We’ll show you it’s not as scary as it may seem, and there’s plenty of ways to help. It’s important to give back to the open source community and improve things for future developers.

This talk will teach you the value of open-source, the benefits of contributing, and a little bit about how ruby-core works. You will learn what to look for when spotting documentation bugs in the MRI source code. We will cover the guidelines to writing MRI documentation, and how to submit a patch. Including helpful tricks using ri and rdoc.

Zachary Scott is a Ruby committer since September 2012 who will gladly help with your first patch into ruby-core.

An Introduction to JRuby

Grant Defayette will be presenting on the following surrounding JRuby.

1. What is JRuby and how is it different from MRI?
2. Why would anyone use JRuby instead of MRI?
3. Using Java code from Ruby.
   • Java swing example.
   • Custom Java class example.
4. Using Ruby code from Java.
   • Running ruby code from Java with JRuby’s Red Bridge.
   • Passing values to Ruby code from Java.
   • Getting results back from Ruby.