# Contributing to Ruby¶ ↑

This guide outlines ways to get started with contributing to Ruby:

- Reporting issues: How to report issues, how to request features, and how backporting works

- Building Ruby: How to build Ruby on your local machine for development

- Testing Ruby: How to test Ruby on your local machine once you’ve built it

- Making changes to Ruby: How to submit pull requests to change Ruby’s documentation, code, test suite, or standard libraries

- Making changes to Ruby standard libraries: How to build, test, and contribute to Ruby standard libraries

- Making changes to Ruby documentation: How to make changes to Ruby documentation

- Benchmarking Ruby: How to benchmark Ruby