From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-11-14T23:07:00+09:00 Subject: Re: enterprise ruby Edwin Van leeuwen wrote: > Cameron McBride wrote: >> On 11/13/07, Sean Surname wrote: >> I have a lot of numerical processing scripts in ruby. Mostly they are >> hybrids of NArray and GSL, with a few of Ara's tricks and C extensions >> thrown in. Since my focus has also been results ASAP, I've had >> little time to generalize / sync these efforts. In addition, I sorely >> miss direct graphics (note: I'm not a fan of how GSL shellsout to >> graph, or many of the other solutions. The closest to what I like is >> the NArray/PGPLOT extension, but PGPLOT itself is better when not used >> directly). > > I also have a half hearted library for my own use, which basically > consist of wrapper/helper methods around rbgsl/gnuplot functions. > >> It'd be great to find a few like minded people and work together to >> garner and keep momentum for such a project. Given the small number >> of interested people, and the fact that "like-minded solutions" don't >> seem to overlap between them - I'm skeptical of it happening. However >> unlikely, I still cling to hope... ;) >> > > What would you like to see in such a project. Would you like something > that binds together existing c libraries (gsl/lapack etc) or would you > like to build it all up from scratch? > > Edwin Are we talking *enterprise* Ruby or *high-performance scientific* Ruby??? There's a whole web site devoted to the latter, http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/.