Victor Shepelev's wroclove.rb 2019 lightning talk, given as a warm-up ahead of his next-morning main-stage presentation. Recounts 15 years of Ruby, avoiding Rails for 12 years and coming from a C++ / language-geek background. Inspired by a Stephen Wolfram presentation on the Wolfram Language, he decided Ruby could be even more expressive for scientific computing than the (proprietary) Wolfram stack, even though the scientific niche had been taken by Python. For three years he was part of the Scientific Ruby community, running several Google Summer of Code projects with students (including 'super bright Indian guys', dispelling the 'not true' stereotype about Indian programmers he had heard). Concludes the effort led to no end, attributing this to Python's huge head start, enterprise teams defaulting to Python for data science even on Rails codebases, community work driven mostly by summer students being ignored, and the Japanese part of the Ruby community working only in Japanese and ignoring the rest. Still holds some hope.