On May 18, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Joshua Ballanco wrote:

> In the tradition of actions vs. words, I present to you:
>
> RubyScience - A Collection of Ruby Science Libraries and Projects
> http://github.com/jballanc/RubyScience
>
> To get started:
> > git clone git://github.com/jballanc/RubyScience.git
> > git submodule update --init
>
> So, initially I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice if GitHub had a way of  
> creating groups to collect related projects?" Which is, of course,  
> when I realized that GitHub already does... It's called Git!  
> (specifically git submodules). So, this project isn't much, really,  
> on its own. Eventually I'd like to automate some of the pulling/ 
> updating/indexing/documenting/etc. tasks. I'd also like to have an  
> umbrella gem (or perhaps many umbrella gems, i.e. rubyscience- 
> physics, rubyscience-math, etc.) that would make it easier to start  
> from scratch to do science with Ruby.
>
> For now, though, RubyScience is just a collection. Please add to it!  
> I also welcome comments, criticism, discussion regarding  
> organization, strategy, goal, and so forth. Don't forget projects  
> too! What better way to motivate yourself to finish that evolution  
> simulation for your Ph.D. thesis than by showing it in all its  
> unfinished glory to the world as part of the RubyScience project?  
> (At least, that's what I'm going for ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>

I like the git idea a lot.   Last year I ported a Ruby science library  
to Ruby 1.9, made it into a gem, sent the changes to the maintainer  
and nothing became of it.   Not the maintainers fault.  He was just  
too busy.   If it's distributed that's just not a problem.