Ruffus is a lightweight python module to run computational pipelines.

Welcome

Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort.

These are Ruffus's strengths:

Lightweight: Suitable for the simplest of tasks
Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive.
Standard python syntax. No "clever magic" to code around.
Unintrusive and unambitiously lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well.

Please join me (email: ruffus_lib at llew.org.uk) in setting the direction of this project if you are interested.

Documentation

Download
to install Ruffus

Simple Tutorial
Start here for a quick introduction to Ruffus

Full Manual
for an-depth demonstration of all Ruffus features

Table of contents
for an complete listing of all the documentation

Frequently Answered Questions
for any common problems, clever solutions from the community

Design
to understand the design of Ruffus

Cheat Sheet
for Ruffus syntax

Ruffus is available as an easy-installable package on the Python Package Index.

Just run:

easy_install -U ruffus

The very latest (unstable / under-development) code can be obtained via svn:

svn checkout http://ruffus.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ruffus-read-only