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If you want to get involved, please drop by our mailing list or our IRC channel, #sciruby at chat.freenode.net. Please note that SciRuby and NMatrix require Ruby 1.9.2 or higher. Individual components may work with Ruby 1.8, but we may not be able to help you if you have trouble.

Please take a look at the Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas page if you want to participate.

If you want to know more about why we're developing SciRuby, read the The SciRuby Manifesto. You can also take a look at who are our main contributors in the members page.

Table of contents

• Installation - Instructions for Linux and OS X, with fixes for the most common errors.

If you want to contribute, take a look at the following pages:

• Use cases for various tasks - Add use cases from research and industrial applications.
• Roadmap - These are the objectives we have for SciRuby.

Subprojects

SciRuby is an umbrella for various other projects. By itself, the sciruby gem has some plotting capabilities and is going to provide a SciRuby::Dataset class, similar to a data frame in R. Most of the work is done by the underlying libraries:

• NMatrix
• Statsample
• Minimization
• Integration
• Distribution
• Rubyvis

Other projects that we should keep an eye on

We have two lists of projects that we should keep an eye on, because they can be ported to Ruby or they already implement some scientific functionality.

• Scientific projects in Ruby - Library wrappers and others. We should avoid overlapping with them.
• External Software - Scientific software that can be useful to have in mind.