This was initially just for trying to get my first gem to work. It then
became an attempt to make a pure-ruby version of Takuma Ozawa's "rbtree"
gem. (Although note that this is not an rbtree, just a simple btree.)


TO PLAY WITH THIS AS A GEM TO DEVELOP WITH:

If you have checked this out from http://github.com/hipe/hipe-simplebtree
(the "sources") from with the project folder (of this uncompiled gem,)
$ thor default:gemspec # makes the gemspec file from the thor script
$ thor default:build # makes the *.gem file
$ sudo thor default:install # installs the gem on your system

(if you don't have thor, it is a gem and it is like rake.)



TO RUN THE UNIT TESTS/SPECS ON THIS:

There are two test suites to run on this.

1. One is the Test::Unit tests copy-pasted from Takuma Ozawa's 'rbtree' gem.
These tests were used to ensure that this module behaves exactly as his does
(in as far as the tests specify ;) " Run it with:
$ ruby test.rb

2. The other test suite is the one I wrote for any new features or fun tests
I wanted to do on my own. Run them with:
$ rake spec
(you will need the rake gem and the rspec gem.)

If any tests fail, please email me. ("mark" and then a dot and then "meves"
at google's popular mail service.)


Special Thanks to Yoko and Ozawa.