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RailsRocket is an open community website. To contribute an article, it’s as easy as registering. Sign up, write your article, and hit publish!

Our goal is to share knowledge with the Rails community. We’re looking especially for people who:

• Love Ruby on Rails, and are excited about the kinds of things it can do.
• Enjoy helping others, sharing, and contributing knowledge.
• Are working on a Rails project, even if it’s your own personal project.

If this sounds like you, head over to the registration page. Registration gives you access to both contribute articles and to post on the forums.

For articles, once you mark your article as ready for publication, our team of skilled editors review it, and send helpful feedback for each article you write on how to improve it (and future articles). Once you’ve mastered how to squeeze the most out of each article, we let you publish it yourself! Just drop us an email to let us know when it’s ready.

What are some of the things you should think about before you mark your article as ready to publish?

The Basics:

• Make sure you’ve run a spell check of your post and corrected any mistakes.
• Read your post over to make sure it makes sense. Is it clear, and well-organized? Does it convey some meaningful point?
• If you have any code, wrap it in <code>…</code> tags. This will preserve formatting of special characters.

Meta-Information:

• Did you categorize your article in the right categories?
• Did you add around three tags different from the categories to your article? (Try to tag cross-cutting features, like: Rails 2.1, ActiveRecord, debugging, etc.
• Did you write a short, keyword-heavy excerpt summarizing your article? This is very important, because this is what people see in search engines!

If you’ve done all these things, hit Submit for Review, and drop us an email to let us know it’s ready for publication!

What more do you need? Register now, and start giving back to the community!

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