From: Robert Dober Date: 2010-05-28T17:53:48+09:00 Subject: Re: how to call gnuplot from ruby? On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Pen Ttt wrote: > IO.popen('gnuplot', 'w') { |io| >  io.puts "plot sin(x)" > } > i tested ,it's ok > but i don't understand why is ('gnuplot', 'w'),why is not ('gnuplot', > 'r'), you are writing to the handle, right? BTW were there not some Ruby bindings for Gnuplot, not sure though. HTH R.