Spira Person example

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'spira'
require 'rdf'
include RDF

class Person
  include Spira::Resource

  type FOAF.Person
  base_uri "http://example.com/people/"

  property :name, :predicate => FOAF.name, :type => String
  property :homepage, :predicate => FOAF.homepage
end


person = Person.new(5)
person.name = "Joe Bloggs"
person.homepage = URI("http://www.example.com/foo/")

p person.name

Note that you don't need the RDF:: qualifier for class names within the Person definition, since Spira::Resource includes the RDF module. So for example RDF::FOAF.name can be written simply as FOAF.name.

Also, instead of saying RDF::URI.parse("http://www.example.com/foo/") you can with recent RDF.rb versions just say RDF::URI("http://www.example.com/foo/").

If you include the RDF module globally (right after the require statements), then you can of course drop the RDF:: qualifiers altogether.

Thanks Arto :)

Nick, see also http://github.com/datagraph/linkeddata which may come handy in DBpedia lite.

Reminds me of Bundle::* in CPAN :)