From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-08-25T09:49:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Code integration MATLAB and Ruby

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Adam West<jicuss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Djoudjou<julien.bieren@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to integrate an optimization module coded in Matlab into a
>>> Ruby-based architecture. Basically the matlab code is performing a
>>> genetic algorithm. In matlab i use this code to find a sub matrix with
>>> minimum sum. I'd like to call these functions via �Ruby.
>>
>> Haven't had a chance to play with it but:
>>
>> http://matlab-ruby.rubyforge.org/matlab-ruby/
>
> Hi, I have gotten to play with matlab-ruby. I found it to be great, once
> you get it setup. Getting it to compile in windows was a loosing battle,
> once I switched to umbuntu the problems went away. There were a few
> oddities with regard to the outputs, but nothing that a quick monkey
> patch cant solve. let me know how it works for you, Matlab and Ruby are
> my favorite two flavors of code.

Very interesting.  My girlfriend does a lot of statistical analysis
and data processing as part of her research, so she spends a lot of
her time in Matlab.   I wonder if this compiles on OS X...

-greg