The thing is I'm finding trouble to dedicate to Ransack lately, so I can't really commit to any date.

That's cool, I get it, it's unpaid open source work :)

Sponsorship allows me to focus my efforts on open source software. I also provide professional consulting services.

As for publishing this as an actual gem on rubygems.org...I have enough open source I'm involved in all ready (or too much, as my wife would probably say) and I'm not really interested in maintaining another gem.

I'm trying to get official time at work to dedicate to source maps, and haven't made much progress there.

On the “lows” side, I’d say the worst thing was the impact of not being present enough for my family. I was working a full-time job and doing faastRuby on nights and weekends. Here I want to give a big shout out to my wife. She supported me through this and didn’t cut my head off in the process.

Our mission is to allow people to make money via educational efforts and to dedicate the rest of their time to creating great open source products.

Sorry for the delay, life got in the way. I should have some time to pick this up again next week.

At work, I cannot maintain this project. At home, I'd rather spend time with my children and on projects that I'm currently passionate about.

Over time Adam, Surplus' creator, had less and less time to spend on the project and I decided to take my own shot.

Problem is, everyone's busy, so it can be days or even weeks before even a small PR is merged. So I'm stashing my stuff here as I write it. I'll still try to keep the PRs in motion, to gradually get some of this merged.

I do develop Open-Source Software during leisure time, for free and whenever I have enough time, energy and motivation for it.

This project is maintained for free by these people using both their free time and their company work time.