2015-08-19-gsoc-activities.md

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Introduction

Hi, GSoC 2015 is almost over and in this blog post I want to draw a line under my activities related to GnuplotRB project and compare project proposal with developed gem.

Activities during this summer

Pre-midterm contributions

Travis CI and Co

To be sure that I'm not breaking anything with new contributions, I added Travis CI build configuration for my project and used Codeclimate with its testcoverage gem. I ran tests via Travis on both MRI (2.0, 2.1, 2.2) and Jruby (9.0.0.0).

I also used Rubocop to check my code from time to time for style and code complexity issues.

Basic staff classes

I started gem development by designing several staff classes: Terminal, Datablock and Dataset. Their main purpose was to create a robust base for other plottable classes such as Plot and Multiplot.

GnuplotRB::Plot class

My first milestone was to develop staff classes and GnuplotRB::Plot that would allow users to plot 2D graphs. During second week I implemented Plot as container of Datasets with its own plotting methods.

GnuplotRB::Splot and Multiplot

Post-midterm contributions

GnuplotRB::Animation

GnuplotRB::Fit

Notebooks

Comparison

All features mentioned in project proposal were developed. Interface of GnuplotRB gem is very similar to proposed. I only added safe and destructive update methods and support for iRuby and Daru containers.