Shinsei

Ruby bindings for libnova, a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'shinsei'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install shinsei

Dependencies

• libnova (v0.15, libtool 2.4.2)

Usage

latitude, longitude = '53.59209', '9.95328'
site = Shinsei latitude, longitude

site.moon_set Date.new(2012, 7, 11) # => '2012-07-12 13:39:55 UTC'
site.moon_rise Date.new(2012, 7, 11) # => '2012-07-11 22:25:57 UTC'

Performance

...

TODO

• write specs
• define more structs
• attach more functions
• documentation

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Thanks

• libnova contributors
• all the people working on Ruby and FFI
• fork