Welcome to the first episode in a series of short screencasts for the Ruby neo4j gem. Each episode will describe a different aspect of the gem. In this first episode, we will start by discussing how to set up a new Ruby on Rails app using Neo4j. The neo4j gem is not Rails specific so you can use other frameworks like Sinatra or Lotus, but because of the popularity of Ruby on Rails we will be using it for this screencast series.
In this series we’re going to create an application to host digital assets which we’ll call "asset_portal". To create your Rails app you can run a rails new command as usual. To use Neo4j instead of ActiveRecord you can give arguments which will set up a new Rails app using Neo4j models.
rails new asset_portal -m http://neo4jrb.io/neo4j/neo4j.rb -O
The dash-m argument runs a script from the neo4j gem project and the dash-capital-O argument says to exclude ActiveRecord. There aren’t any restrictions on using Neo4j with other ORMs like ActiveRecord, but you will need to conf
