# How to make useful contributions to Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-useful-contributions-to-ruby/255656>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-useful-contributions-to-ruby/255656 "2020-02-19T12:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lykos42](https://www.ruby-forum.com/user_avatar/www.ruby-forum.com/lykos42/32/1723_2.png) [@Lykos42](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Lykos42)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-useful-contributions-to-ruby/255656/1 "2020-02-19T12:14:20Z")

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Hello,

I am wondering what one can do to contribute to Ruby. Becoming a core member is far away from how much time I have, besides, it would take years to build up the trust. So that’s not the goal. I have submitted a small clarification of a comment once. I would send small PRs again if I see small things like that. But I want to do something in between. I.e. more than just occasional 1-3 line PRs, but less than becoming a long time member of the core team.

I have some useful, but no extensive knowledge on Ruby. I have done quite a bit of C extensions and while doing that, I have gathered some knowledge on how the data structures in Ruby are implemented in C. But I haven’t looked into the interpreter etc.