Level Up with OSS: Develop Your Rails Dev ...
summary
Open source contributions accelerate skill and hireability by producing concrete artifacts: resolved issues, documented installs, and reviewed pull requests that demonstrate Rails work and git fluency. The talk gives a repeatable workflow (fork, clone, branch, commit, push, pull/rebase), recommends tools and entry points like GitHub, OpenHatch, Gitrec, 24 Pull Requests, and platforms such as CodeMontage, and shows outcomes — dozens of real PRs, an employer hire, and code that ships.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Goals
- 4:03Contribute
- 6:54Find a Project
- 8:57Tasks
- 11:02Community
- 13:06Github Workflow
- 15:55Celebrate
- 16:08Workflow
- 18:23Code
- 19:48Pull Requests
- 23:07Take Your Work
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