Scale on y axis with Gadfly - julia

I have a small issue with Gadfly, I want to plot the tension of a sensor over the time but the scale on the y axis is too wide and I can't expaned it. Already looked through the gadfly documentation without finding an answer.
For the following julia code,
b=plot(x=time,y=lambda,Guide.xlabel("Temps"),Geom.line,Coord.Cartesian(ymin=0.28,ymax=1.0,xmin=0,xmax=150),Guide.ylabel("Lambda"),Guide.title("Evolution lambda en fonction du temps"),Scale.y_continuous(scalable=false))
I get something like this,
But here I only have on the y axis: 0.5 , 1.0 and I want more like 0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,... because it is not readable that way.
Anyone knows how I would do that with gadfly?
Thanks by advance !

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