# A good home for some Ruby Projects

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-good-home-for-some-ruby-projects/62327>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 2, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-good-home-for-some-ruby-projects/62327 "2006-06-02T19:44:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat_eyler)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-good-home-for-some-ruby-projects/62327/1 "2006-06-02T19:44:42Z")

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With some changes in my responsibilities at work, and in my available  
freetime, I’m stuck needed to give up several of my Ruby related  
projects.  
I’d like to see them go to new maintainers who are interested in  
actively  
improving them. I’ve writtten some blog posts with more information:

> **[Wanted: Good Home For Ruby Projects](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/05/wanted-good-home-for-ruby-projects.html)**
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> I'm involved in four different Ruby projects, and while I'm interested in all of them, I need to give them up. I'm in the middle of some ch...

> **[Free to a Good Home: The Ruby Programming Shop](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/05/free-to-good-home-ruby-programming.html)**
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> About a year ago, I started a project called The Ruby Programming Shop (or the RPS). Our intent was to adopt languishing Ruby libraries an...

> **[Free to a Good Home: RWB](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-to-good-home-rwb.html)**
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> rwb (the Ruby Web Bench) is a great idea that needs some work. This is probably not a project for a first timer, as it's going to need som...

> **[Free to a Good Home: r43](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-to-good-home-r43.html)**
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> r43 is the most stable of the projects that I need to give up. It implements nearly all of the 43 Things API (it doesn't handle the postin...

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**Author:** ![pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat_eyler)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-good-home-for-some-ruby-projects/62327/2 "2006-06-02T20:52:40Z")

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On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:40 PM, pat eyler wrote:

> [http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/05/free-to-good-home-ruby-](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/05/free-to-good-home-ruby-)  
> programming.html

I’m sad to see this idea hasn’t taken off much. It’s just so darn  
cool. I imagine it suffers from the difficult of coordinating everyone.

> [On Ruby: Free to a Good Home: RWB](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-to-good-home-rwb.html)

Oh Pat, don’t tempt me now. I have so much to do and am weak to  
temptation… 😉

James Edward G. II
