It is designed to allow scientific analyses and other computational pipelines to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort.
This means that ruffus should be suitable for the simplest of tasks.
On the other hand, because it leaverages the full power of python, it should scale up to even fiendishly which would cause makefile/ scons to go all cross-eyed and recursive, E.g.
Using ruffus requires only standard python syntax. Your pipelined programmes can run in the same way without any "clever magic" that you have to code around to customise.
Ruffus tries very hard to be unintrusive. It has unambitiously lightweight syntax which tries to do one small thing well.
I will be slowly adding in more features while hopefully retaining the simple design. Please join me (email: ruffus_lib at llew.org.uk) in setting the direction of this project if you are interested.
Ruffus provides automatic support for:
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Ruffus is available as an easy-installable package on the Python Package Index.
Just run:easy_install ruffus
or, to upgrade:
easy_install -u ruffus
The Ruffus project is hosted at Google Code