Gecode/R
Website: gecoder.org
Gecode/R is a Ruby interface to the Gecode constraint programming library. Gecode/R is intended for people with no previous experience of constraint programming, aiming to be easy to pick up and use.
See Gecode::Model to get started.
Warning
Gecode/R is still in a development stage, the syntax is by no means final and backwards compatibility will be broken time and time again. Don’t use Gecode/R in production-code yet, it’s merely available at this point to allow people to play with it and give feedback.
Installation
Gecode/R requires Gecode 2.1.1, which can be downloaded from www.gecode.org/download.html . See www.gecode.org/gecode-doc-latest/PageComp.html for the installation instructions.
Installing from gem
There are two gems. The first includes only Gecode/R, and assumes that you have installed Gecode yourself. The second includes both Gecode/R and Gecode. If you use Windows then you’re recommended to use the second one, even though you already have Gecode, as the other one does not come in a pre-compiled variant.
Gecode/R only:
gem install gecoder
Gecode/R and Gecode:
gem install gecoder-with-gecode
Installing from source using gem
rake gem
gem install pkg/gecoder-0.x.x.gem
Installing from source without using gem
“gecode.so” might have another extension depending on which platform it’s generated on (replace the extension in the following commands with whatever extension it’s given).
cd ext
ruby extconf.rb
make
mv gecode.so ../lib/
Running the tests
rake specs
Requires RSpec (1.0.5, but other version should hopefully work).