I know that org-ruby html export implementation is far from perfect, but this will improve some things until a better solution that fits Github backed is build. For example, syntax highlighting #+begin_src blocks through Pygments should be available in Github with this release (in theory).

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi Tom,

Tom Regner <tom@goochesa.de> writes:

> Maybe you could make yourself heard in the issue I opened [fn:1]; it is
> actually the third issue I opened, I never got a response and closed the
> other ones -- maybe my conclusions are wrong, and an update of org-ruby
> wouldn't help (that much) -- but with more people actually requesting
> better org-support, maybe it will get a bit more attention and progress.
>
> kine regards,
> Tom
>>
>> š https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby
>
> [fn:1] https://github.com/github/markup/issues/117

I pushed a +100 on this request. I doubt it will change anything,
but who knows. The best way to make sure something happens is to stick
to using org "markup" in github.

--
Bastien