# Advocating a patch **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 1, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advocating-a-patch/87251 "2007-03-01T06:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dankitania](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@dankitania](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dankitania)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advocating-a-patch/87251/1 "2007-03-01T06:37:16Z")
What’s the best way to advocate for a Rails patch to be accepted? This seems like a general enough question when considered on the whole, but here is a specific example. Consider this ticket: [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5976](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5976) , posted 6 months ago… It seems a trivial fix on the surface, but is it missing something that’s holding it up? ---
**Author:** ![dankitania](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@dankitania](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dankitania)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/advocating-a-patch/87251/2 "2007-03-01T06:54:18Z")
On 2/28/07, dangogh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What’s the best way to advocate for a Rails patch to be accepted? > This seems like a general enough question when considered on the > whole, but here is a specific example. > > Consider this ticket: [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5976](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5976) , posted > 6 months ago… It seems a trivial fix on the surface, but is it > missing something that’s holding it up? The best way to advocate for it is to write tests demonstrating that it works. Thanks! jeremy