Contributing to Rails? Start with the Gems You Already Use

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Shows actual pull request links and a QR code to slides and gives a concrete first step: pick gems already used, fix Ruby 3.4 warnings (frozen-string issues by using .dup, URI parser changes, bundled-gem warnings, hash inspect and error‑message diffs) and make CI green. Demonstrates GitHub Actions that enable -w and daily head/debug builds, runs released and development Rubies, tests with and without warnings, and explains when dev‑CI failures are acceptable and how to communicate and submit the first PR.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 2:35Contributing to Rails difficulty
3. 4:32Start with gems you use
4. 7:26Ruby 3.4 fixes now
5. 16:08Fixing CI for contributions
6. 17:13CI types for gems
7. 20:01Ruby CI setup
8. 25:08Start contributing today

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