Hello Rip

[rcoder]

http://hellorip.com/

[rcoder]

This basically looks like an effort to clean up some of the warts of RubyGems, which have become especially painful in the era of the DVCS. GitHub has made forking of Ruby libraries easy, which is great for pace of development, but also causes rapid proliferation of many potentially-conflicting versions of libraries.

Rip looks like one reasonable approach to reclaiming some sanity out of all of that.

[grandalf → rcoder]

exactly -- reminds me of "strong named assemblies" from .net :) (but implemented elegantly w/ a canonical URL and tag/branch/version string)

it's a missing piece that has needed a solution for a while, and rip looks like an awesome approach.