I'm looking for some advice on contributing to Rails (and other large projects). I will provide a specific scenario.
Here is a pull request <https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/3329> that was merged a year ago. In the past month, three people have commented that this introduces another issue under certain circumstances (you have an index on a field). What do I do if I want to take a shot at working on this? The file that was edited has had 10 commits since the pull request in question was merged and currently looks a bit different than it did 10 commits ago. Here are some specific questions: I'm not sure I fully understand what the original issue was (why a pull request was submitted in the first place). Therefore, if I wanted to set up a Rails project that exhibited the issue that the pull request was created to fix, how would I do that? In other words, how do I determine which version of Rails contains the version of the autosave_associaton.rb file as it was immediately before the pull request<https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/3329> was merged? (Or can I install a specific version of Rails based on a Rails Github repo commit?) If I do end up implementing a fix for this in the current version (Rails 4.0), how can I also issue the same fix for a previous version of Rails (3.2.x)? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/oEm8fRXpfh0J. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
