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

* Lightweight: Suitable for the simplest of tasks
* Scalable: Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause
make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive.
* Standard Python: No "clever magic", no pre-processing.
* Unintrusive: Unambitious, lightweight syntax which tries to do this one
small thing well.