[caissy]

I think that the two most important strategies are to actually pair with someone and ask questions after doing some research.

Being able to do some pair programming helped me to understand a new code base, in a language I never used before bits by bits. I could ask questions and actually helped on the issue. Asking questions is important, but as stated on the post, you should try to find to answer by yourself first. I'll actually time myself for 10 minutes, and if I can't find an answer, I'll just poke the most prominent person based on a git blame of the file that is related to my question.

This is my second week working on a Ruby codebase, without any prior experience with Ruby, or Rails (I've mostly been doing Python with Django and Pyramid for the past 3 years). I managed to get quickly up to speed this way.