SimpleKit for Ruby is a minimalist implementation of discrete event simulation using event graphs.

Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Paul J. Sanchez

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT free software license.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

DESCRIPTION

SimpleKit for Ruby is a very minimal Ruby implementation of discrete event simulation based on Lee Schruben's "Event Graph" approach. I wrote it to illustrate to CS students how simulation works "under the hood". You are welcome to use it as you wish so long as you clearly understand that it was created to be a teaching tool. For serious simulation modeling with event graphs I recommend Lee Schruben's SIGMA package or Arnie Buss's SimKit.

WHAT'S WHAT

This top level folder contains this file, README.md, and the simplekit.gemspec used to create the gem installation.

To install SimpleKit for Ruby, use Ruby's gem command:

gem build simplekit.gemspec
gem install simplekit-<version>.gem

(You may need to authenticate as an administrator to install gems.)

There are two subdirectories. Source code for SimpleKit can be found in lib/simplekit.rb. Local documentation can be generated using Ruby's rdoc command or yard.

Examples can be found in the demos folder, which contains several relatively simple models to illustrate SimpleKit usage. These include samples of event scheduling, both with and without arguments, and event cancellation.