Looking for a way to get involved with open source? How about the Ruby Documentation Project? They've got a list of areas in Ruby that need help and a step-by-step guide for helping out. And how cool would it be to have your work committed to core Ruby?

As for myself, it's been a slow week, but I've been moving along:

  • RubyGems Guides - Most of my open source work over the past week went here. I've now finished an editing pass over the whole thing, and added new material to the credits, resources, and FAQ pages. Next up: porting over what's still worth preserving from the old RubyGems Manuals site. Details are in the repo.
  • Tabulous - I had to put together a patch to make this tabbed navigation library play well with Bootstrap 2.0 for a client. As it happens the lead developer worked up his own patch at the same time, so I won't be submitting mine upstream.
  • axlsx - I've been needing this Office Open XML generator in a Rails 3.0 project, which required meddling with the gemspec. It seems to be working fine, so I'll be sending that tiny change back upstream.
  • And of course there was the new What's New in Edge Rails.