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.
this package provides modules documentation.