My First Patch

I am no longer an innocent bystander to the world of open source projects. I’ve had my very first patch applied to a code base. While working on a tiny Rails project, I used Rick Olsen’s restful_authentication plugin/generator. The tests failed immediately due a change in the api for assert_difference. I made the changes, and submitted a patch to Rick, and he applied it last night, along with a couple of other small changes.

I’ve been wanting to start getting involved with more patching, but just haven’t had the opportunity. I even set-up a specific workspace on my laptop just for things that I’m going to be patching, that way I can keep it separate from my own projects.

How exciting!