From: justin caratzas <justin.caratzas@...>
Date: 2009-05-19T04:32:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Introducing RubyScience on GitHub!

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> 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
>
>
:)
nice timing, Josh

I'll gladly be looking into this

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