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I have used OpenStudio's low level IDF Workspace methods called from a series of ruby scripts (see 179d calculator). For a large study and if you don't want any sort of GUI involved, it works pretty well. The ruby bindings i OpenStudio are powerful way to leverage ruby language. With IDF Workspace methods, you can work with any IDF you may have created elsewhere and are not limited to those parts of EnergyPlus that OpenStudio has flushed out for use with its GUIs. It is pretty much brute force when it comes to modifying IDF objects at this lowest level, but it isn't difficult if you know exactly what you want in the IDF. There is a way to call a run manager from the scripts to help manage queuing up and executing all the simulations. You can query the sqlite database to collect results.
