From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T08:48:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ideas for a "parameter sweep" program?



On Nov 23, 3:15 pm, Diego Virasoro <diego.viras...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I often need to run my computational experiments with a combination of
> parameter values, and I was thinking of automatising it with Ruby. Any
> idea on what would be the best way to go about it?
>
> What would be the advantage of trying something like a DSL? I've never
> done it before so it looks a little bit daunting and it may be an
> overkill, but then this is a personal project so I don't have
> deadlines and I'd like to learn a bit in the process.
>
> Or maybe should I cook up something with Rake?

Depends on what you want. If you just want to create an executable
that can accept various options look at the built in OptionParser.

  http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/classes/OptionParser.html