Two fundamental libraries used to build Gfdnavi (open-source)
•GPhys – a Ruby library to analyze and visualize geophysical fluid data (by Horinouchi etc since 2003)
–For consolidated access to data in files (NetCDF, GRIB, GrADS, NuSDAS, HDF5-EOS) or on runtime memory – A community infrastructure for data analysis    [http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/] (since 1999)
•Ruby on Rails – Development framework for Web application (since 2005)
–Made it drastically easy to develop Web applications with RDB
–Written in/for Ruby à We can use GPhys directly