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Is it possible: yes.

Can you write your own home-grown rules engine in Ruby: yes.

Can you use off-the-shelf gems: yes. Here's a few I poked around in my previous explorations into Ruby Rules Engines:

* durable rules - https://github.com/jruizgit/rules?tab=readme-ov-file#ruby

* wongi - https://github.com/ulfurinn/wongi-engine

* rules - https://github.com/azach/rules

* ruleby - https://github.com/Ruleby/ruleby

  - bonus: video of original ruleby author explaining rules engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMh2RDL6aBM
edit: It's also possible to write your own Ruby gem in C so that you can pass the handling of the RHS of your rules to a Ruby script.


Do these Ruby libraries actually implement the Rete optimization in control flow though?




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