Ruby Library

[ankane]

Hi, thanks for this awesome library! I wanted to let you know that there are now Ruby bindings for it 🎉 If you have any feedback, let me know or feel free to create an issue on the project for it.

A few notes:

• To make installation easier, I'm hoping to include shared libraries in the gem. There's a link in the readme to Windows artifacts, but the latest build is from two years ago and the artifacts are no longer available. I've extracted thundersvm.dll from the Windows wheel in the latest release and it appears to work well. If possible, would be great to publish the shared libraries (dll, so, and eventually dylib) with releases.
• Many releases on GitHub (like the most current one - 0.3.4) are marked as "pre-release" in the UI. Is this intentional?

I've also created a Homebrew formula to make installation easier on Mac. Will create a separate issue to discuss that.

[zeyiwen]

Thanks Andrew! Another great effort. I have removed the pre-release tag.

Please feel free to revise the README.md to add your Ruby interface (e.g., "Support Python, R and Matlab interfaces." -> "Support Python, R, Matlab and Ruby interfaces.") and help fix the old links to Windows artifacts. You may consider contributing your Ruby bindings directly into ThunderSVM--perhaps easier for the future upgrade.

[ankane]

Hey @zeyiwen, thanks for the response. Is there a newer link for this line: "pre-built binaries and DLL for Windows x64 on CPUs are avaliable" or should it be removed?

Re Ruby bindings: I think it'll be easier to manage as a separate project.

[ankane]

Also, fwiw, it looks like there are installation instructions on 3 separate pages.

• README.md
• docs/get-started.md
• docs/how-to.md

It'd be nice if a maintainer could help address these as well.

[shijiashuai]

CI on windows has been migrated to Travis-ci, so the “windows artifacts” link can be removed.

Releasing shared library is a good idea. While building on MacOS is on progress, I’ll update the release once it is finished.