Scientific Programming with Ruby

Question

I was doing the mathematical calculations with python or octave because of availability of really nice functions and libraries at hand. But recently I gained interest in rub

Answer 1

Linear algebra is at the heart of most large-scale scientific computing. LAPACK is the gold standard for linear algebra libraries, first written in FORTRAN.

There's a port to Ruby here. Once you have that, the rest is incidental, but there are also plotting routines in Ruby.