Metamolecular Products Blog

A new version of the Chemcaster Ruby client gem is now available, which fixes an issue in which an error was raised on startup:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'chemcaster'
LoadError: no such file to load -- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/metamolecular-chemcaster-0.3.1/lib/chemcaster/substance
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/metamolecular-chemcaster-0.3.1/lib/chemcaster.rb:6
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from (irb):2
    from :0

The new version can be installed with:

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
$ sudo gem install metamolecular-chemcaster

Chemcaster is the cheminformatics Web services platform optimized for rapid creation of chemistry-focussed websites. It supports compound registration, exact- and substructure search, and dynamic 2D structure image creation, both through a browser-based administrative interface and a RESTful Web API.

We're looking for developers interested in testing Chemcaster with their next project. If the idea of streamlining the creation of rich chemistry websites sounds interesting, please consider requesting an invitation to create an account.