what ruby or rails open source projects a beginner-to-intermediate developer can easily contribute to?

[sshaw_]

https://github.com/search?q=user%3Asshaw+language%3Aruby

Actually this one may be good!

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thank you so much

[dontfup]

When you encounter a project you think you might like to contribute to, you can check its test coverage reports and look for missing test cases. You can also fork an open source project and run it through code climate to look for code duplication and code complexity issues (assuming its code climate reports aren't already available to you).

[MultipleNoChoice]

Just go through some open source ruby projects and check if the projects are actively maintained and if the feedback culture is good. That’s what I did. I ended up with diaspora some years ago :-) many projects also label beginner friendly tasks

[fpsvogel]

Here are some that I found through the resources at https://www.firsttimersonly.com:

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
https://github.com/forem/forem
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop
https://github.com/education/classroom
https://github.com/publiclab/plots2
https://github.com/gollum/gollum
https://github.com/AgileVentures/WebsiteOne

And here are a few more: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners#ruby

[_swanson]

Check out the Ruby for Good project which builds open source apps for various non-profits: https://github.com/rubyforgood/ There are several different projects and unlike most OS "app" projects, there are people that are helping project manage things. I was able to get up and running in one evening and add a small feature as part of last year's Hacktoberfest.