SymEngine Ruby Wrappers
Ruby wrappers gem for SymEngine, a fast symbolic manipulation library, written in C++. https://github.com/sympy/symengine
Installation
Prerequisites
C++ compiler - See supported compilers
CMake - with executable folder in the
PATH
variablelibsymengine - See build instructions
Installing
Simply do,
gem install symengine
If
libsymengine
is not found, you can give the installation directory or build directory by doing,gem install symengine -- -DSymEngine_DIR=/path/to/symengine/root
Development
- Install bundler by
gem install bundler
- Execute
bundle install
this will install the gems required - Build the gem,
gem build symengine.gemspec
- Install the gem,
gem install symengine-0.0.0.gem
Using the extensions
SymEngine is a module in the extensions, and the classes are a part of it. So first you fire up the interpreter and load the file
~$ irb
2.2.0 :001 > require 'symengine'
=> true
Go ahead and try a function
2.2.0 :002 > SymEngine.ascii_art
_____ _____ _
| __|_ _ _____| __|___ ___|_|___ ___
|__ | | | | __| | . | | | -_|
|_____|_ |_|_|_|_____|_|_|_ |_|_|_|___|
|___| |___|
=> nil
or create a variable
2.2.0 :003 > basic = SymEngine::Symbol.new("x")
=> #<SymEngine::Symbol:0x0000000274d608>