Introduction to Scripting in Ruby

This should be an interesting introduction. The full article is
available here:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-10-221.pdf



An introduction to scripting in Ruby for biologists

Jan Aerts and Andy Law

BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:221doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-221

Published:

16 July 2009

Abstract (provisional)

The Ruby programming language has a lot to offer to any scientist with
electronic data to process. Not only is the initial learning curve
very shallow, but its reflection and meta-programming capabilities
allow for the rapid creation of relatively complex applications while
still keeping the code short and readable. This paper provides a
gentle introduction to this scripting language for researchers without
formal informatics training such as many wet-lab scientists. We hope
this will provide such researchers an idea of how powerful a tool Ruby
can be for their data management tasks and encourage them to learn
more about it.