Your First Rails Pull Request
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Practical checklist for contributing: pick an issue or smaller rails org gem, set up rails dev box (VirtualBox + Vagrant), fork rails/rails, branch, run targeted gem tests with rake, benchmark changes (example: adding transform_keys and measuring small-hash perf), update CHANGELOG, squash commits, then push and rebase from rails/rails before opening a PR. Rails sees 2,912 PRs/year with 1,916 merged, 74% merged <24h and median accept ~5.5 days, so expect fast feedback and iterative review.
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