The Ruby API for netCDF was contributed as part
of the Dennou Ruby Project,
providing software for data analyses, visualization, and numerical
simulations for geophysical studies.
Strengths
RubyNetCDF
provides all the functionality of the netCDF-3 C library, including
client access to remote data through the DAP protocols
Very concise: a small program can copy a netCDF-3 file using
this API:
copy.rb
Makes available combination functions such as iterators (which offer abstract
ways to scan files and variables)
Supports efficient multidimensional numeric arrays with the
NArray library, the de facto Ruby standard
Handles packed data specified by scale_factor and add_offset
attributes
Other Characteristics
Array index order is column-major (fastest varying dimension
first, as in Fortran), but array indices start at 0.
