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A comment on SciRuby.

Re:SciRuby by jcarden on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:09PM (#3180430)
Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?
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Re:SciRuby by pdenya on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:38PM (#3180511)
I think this was posted in response to this article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370) rather than because of some recent update.
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Re:SciRuby by jergason on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:39PM (#3180517)
That is correct. I am somewhat connected to a few guys working on this, and I saw the article and thought I would share.
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Re:SciRuby by skadamat on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:44PM (#3180537)
I WAS just gonna ping that guy and let him know about it haha
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Re:SciRuby by lrfunk on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @02:54AM (#3180966)
> This is very much needed.

Why? (just curious) SciPy is mature, popular, and has already been heavily peer-reviewed. Then there are R an Matlab and ...

What does SciRuby bring to the table that makes it stand out from the rest?

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Re:SciRuby by jergason on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:17AM (#3181008)
Some labs do lots of work in Ruby. It would be nice to stick with Ruby for analysis of your data as well. Kindof like the cas for server-side JavaScript: less friction between code in the server and browser.
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Re:SciRuby by jtprince on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:32PM (#3183732)
in addition to jergason's response, sciruby allows/facilitates:

1. better chaining of commands 2. blocks and enumerators 3. integration with rails and other web services 4. a dynamic community

see http://www.floss4science.com/interview-sciruby-team/

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