Contributing
It??™s easy to contribute to JRuby-extras. You should sign up on the mailing list. Once you??™ve
done that and you??™d like to help out, just send a message to the list detailing how you??™d like to
contribute, and if your idea sounds reasonable you??™ll get commit access to the project. The
main development happens through SVN, and much discussion usually happens on the mailing
list. If you have an existing project you??™d like to commit to JRuby-extras, follow the same
procedure and add it to JRuby-extras.
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Many of the existing projects could sorely use some more help; many of the current developers
are stuck working hard on JRuby itself or on other projects, so if you see something in
the following list that you think is important, don??™t hesitate to sign up for it.
Current Projects
As mentioned earlier, 12 different projects in JRuby-extras have had at least one release. I??™ll
give a quick introduction to each of these here, to give you a feeling about what kind of things
end up in the JRuby-extras project.
ActiveRecord-JDBC
AR-JDBC is probably the most important project in JRuby-extras, and something we??™ve considered
extracting from RubyForge for a long time. It??™s quite grown up, working fairly well. The
current version is 0.5 and the core databases are supported well. That??™s not to say there??™s nothing
you can do to help. In fact, AR-JDBC needs lots of help, because every database adapter
needs someone to adopt it and make sure it runs correctly.
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