Give

This talk was presented at North West Ruby User Group on January 19th 2012. Check github.com/seenmyfate/give for more information

Transcript

1. give Tom Clements Senior Developer, On The Beach tom-clements.com | github.com/seenmyfate @Seenmyfate
2. the nature of resolve This year I'm going to… Write a book! Travel the world! Make Open Source contributions!
3. reality != resolve Fork project Start coding Get distracted Find project 3 months later
4. this could be easier
5. introducing give give makes contributing to open source projects on Github just a little easier, by wrapping some simple commands around a common workflow.
6. why? easier for first time contributors easier for lazy devs helps create conflict-free pull requests helps project maintainers
7. install $ gem install give
8. give setup $ give setup seenmyfate give Forks the project to your github account Clones your fork Adds the original repo as an upstream remote
9. give start $ give start feature/my_awesome_feature Checks out a new branch
10. give update $ give update feature/my_awesome_feature Fetches upstream changes Pulls upstream into your local master Rebases your feature branch
11. give finish $ give finish feature/my_awesome_feature Pushes up your local changes Sends a pull request
12. and that's it! Install it Try it out Make it better
13. gem install give tom-clements.com | github.com/seenmyfate @Seenmyfate