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Introduction. Fortran Calculus programs are small optimization models of physical processes that are solved with sophisticated software based on automatic differentiation. The supporting structure is written is specific versions of Fortran, which require a very specific environment to run in. You can learn more about Fortran Calculus at www.metacalculus.com Our Task. Our task here is to provide a way to create, manage, and submit Fortran Calculus models to the system and manage the results. A browser approach was taken, because the nature of the supporting environment is hidden from all and is widely accessible. Screen Shot. The screenshot below gives you a sense of what we are trying to accomplish. We have a header, a footer, and a menu sidebar on the left. We have a central area (the dialog…

I have made a fair amount of progress working with React and Ruby on Rails 5.1. After some digging, I found there are several ways to go about this: Use react on its own and just use the rails api Use the react-rails gem Use the Shakacode react_on_rails gem Use Rails 5.1 yarn's support directly I chose the react_on_rails gem as it seemed to do more than react-rails and I like the shakacode.com videos and attitude. They did a lot to pave the way to use yarn to manage the node stack in the rails environment; rails has switched to using yarn with rails 5.1 to manage javascript. You can still use the Rails Asset Pipeline in parallel. A word of caution. A lot changed from rails 5.0 to rails…

Welcome. I am in the fortunate position to have some time to work with some new software, so I thought I would share by thoughts if I discover something interesting.