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Jim Wise (jwise@draga.com)
- Copyright
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Copyright © 2011 Jim Wise
- License
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2-clause BSD-Style (see LICENSE.txt)
Rulog is Ruby with Logic, a Logic Programming system for Ruby.
Rulog follows Prolog conventions where possible to do so within a Ruby DSL, but makes a strong effort to retain a Rubyish “feel” wherever possible. The underlying functionality of Rulog, including the unification engine and solver are also exposed directly through a set of Ruby classes.
While usable, this is a work in progress – what’s here now is a working Logic Programming environment for Ruby, with integration with Ruby language features (including unification of Prolog-style functors and Ruby scalar and Enumerable types), along with a DSL to make these easier to use. This is sufficient for writing pure logic programs in Ruby, or for adding logic-programming-based capabilities to a Ruby program.
Future releases will tighten the integration between this logic engine and the rest of Ruby, including adding:
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the ability to escape to a Ruby block during unification, much as the “is” operator in Prolog allows direct use of mathematical operations at unification time
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the ability to include a predicate written in Ruby in a Rulog rule, similar to the use of FFI systems in modern prolog environments
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further improvements to the DSL used with Rulog::declare, to simplify use of these and other Rulog features
The implementation of prolog’s cut operator (!) is also not quite right at this point – while cut should commit only to all choices back to the choice of the rule containing the cut, Rulog’s cut! DSL operator currently commits to all choices made to this point in the decision tree. This will be fixed in a future version (support for this is already present in ambit).
Rulog depends on the ambit gem for backtracking. Given this, Rulog will not work in JRuby or MacRuby (no callcc). It is tested, and should work in Ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7.
To install:
$ gem install rulog
After checking out the source, run:
$ rake newb
This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs, and generate the RDoc.
Logic programming is a form of programming which consists of stating a series of rules which describe
To get started, include this gem using
require 'rubygems' require 'rulog'
This gem provides the Rulog module. This module provides several methods which allow use of Logic Programming with Ruby.
man(:abraham) man(:isaac) man(:jacob) woman(:sarah) woman(:rebekah) woman(:rachel) parent(:abraham, :isaac) parent(:sarah, :isaac) parent(:isaac, :jacob) parent(:rebekah, :jacob) father(v(:x), v(:y)) [ parent(v(:x), v(:y)), man(:x) ] son(v(:x), v(:y)) [ parent(v(:x), v(:y)), man(:y) ]
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Sterling, Leon and Ehud Shapiro, The Art of Prolog, MIT Press, 1994
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