So, I think this may be good news for some folks.
February 24, 2009 is the date that Jamis Buck marked as the end of several of his open source projects, including SQLite3/Ruby. (you can read the post here)
Previously, he asked for help updating SQLite3/Ruby to make it work on Windows.
That sad news left a lot of us with a bad taste, and very unhappy, not because we no longer will have someone to complain at, but because he no longer enjoyed working on those projects.