Table 2 Ruby extensions accessible to Rubabel
Extension | Possible application with Rubabel |
|---|---|
Sinatra [20], a web application framework | Quick and easy webapp GUI for Open Babel, allowing multi-platform point and click chemoinformatics |
Sciruby [16], a scientific library | Plotting, statistical tools, access to R programming language for Rubabel results |
Rubyvis graphical library [22] | Open ended graphical software to make clean representations of numerical data |
IRB, the interactive Ruby shell | Quick access to Rubabel and Open Babel from a terminal |
Rspec, an automated code testing library [21] | Automated unit tests for software built with Rubabel (No Python equivalent due to Ruby’s block ability) |
Ruby debugger [23] | Step into executed code with a live IRB session to ferret out bugs |
Rubygems, a distribution tool [10] | Easily distribute and integrate applications written with Rubabel with a one-line install |