Concrete Partial Evaluation in Ruby

Modern scientific research is a collaborative process, with researchers from many disciplines and institutions working toward a common goal. Dynamic languages, like Ruby, provide a platform for quickly developing simulation and analysis tools, freeing researchers to focus on research instead of spending time developing infrastructure. Ruby is a particularly good fit, allowing incorporation of existing C libraries, simplifying Domain Specific Language creation, and providing both REST and SOAP web-based API libraries. Ruby also provides RPC-style distributed programming. Concrete partial evaluation of Ruby begins to address Ruby´s biggest flaw, performance. The scientific community has already begun to recognize the potential of Ruby. An MPI extension to the language allows quick prototyping of MPI programs. More recently libraries supporting MapReduce have appeared. Web frameworks, such as the popular Ruby on Rails framework, provide tools for producing and consuming REST APIs.