From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T06:51:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Good code examples

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm very new to ruby, and I would like to know if there is some applications
> known to be well coded in "rubysh style" that I can learn from. What I would
> like to see is Ruby in scientific computing, application design (i.e. I'm
> not very interested in Web applications) or glue language (i.e. extension of
> some other application of ruby being heavily extended using other
> languages).
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Pierre

i'm doing alot of stuff - mostly little image processing tasks.  can you
define what you mean by 'scientific computing'.  many people mean numerical
computing by that, but of course there are worlds of scientific programming
that are not numerical in nature.  you may find this interesting:

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/
   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/InterestingProjects
   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/InterestingPeople

and example of some coding used for science that is not 'numerical'

   http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/rq/
   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7922

btw.  welome to the ruby group!

cheers.

-a
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