How to contribute to open source: a guide for Rails beginners

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • Send back your fix by creating a PR (pull request). To learn how to make a PR, follow the steps in First Contributions. Here is another guide with a few extra steps that are good to keep in mind. Also, if you find that you've cloned a project's repo before forking it, this guide explains how to get back on track by making your local copy point to your fork.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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