daikini-octave-ruby

octave-ruby http://octave-ruby.rubyforge.org/ [e-mail] A big thank you to Lipomics Technologies, Inc. http://www.lipomics.com for sponsoring this project.

== DESCRIPTION:

A Ruby interface to the Octave interpreted language.

== FEATURES:

• Data type conversion between Octave and Ruby String, Boolean, Nil and Numeric values
• Matrix, CellMatrix and StructMatrix helper classes for working with Octave matrices

== USAGE:

require 'octave'

engine = Octave::Engine.new engine.eval "123.456 * 789.101112" engine.rand(10)

matrix = Octave::Matrix.new(20, 400) 20.times { |m| 400.times { |n| matrix[m, n] = rand } } engine.put_variable("m", matrix)

engine.save "/tmp/20_x_400_matrix"

== REQUIREMENTS:

• Octave
• GCC or some other compiler to build the included extension
• Mocha (For testing only)

== INSTALL:

Simply do the following, after installing Octave:

• ruby setup.rb config
• ruby setup.rb setup
• ruby setup.rb install

Alternatively, you can download and install the RubyGem package for octave-ruby (you must have RubyGems and Octave installed, first):

• gem install octave-ruby

If you have Octave installed in a non-standard location, you can specify the location of the include and lib files by doing:

• gem install octave-ruby -- --with-octave-include=/usr/local/include/octave-3.0.0/octave
  --with-octave-lib=/usr/local/lib/octave-3.0.0
  --with-dep-include=/usr/local/include/octave-3.0.0

== LICENSE

octave-ruby is licensed under the GPL License.

Copyright (c) 2007 Jonathan Younger [e-mail]