rastamhadi/tomodachi

Barebones Rails application to experimentally model social network friendships in a Neo4j graph database.

Tomodachi

This is a barebones Rails application with a Neo4j graph database backend.

Prerequisites

• rbenv
• bundler

Installation

1. Install Java 8.

   $ brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
   $ brew cask install java8
   

2. Install Neo4j.

   $ bundle exec rake neo4j:install[community-3.5.3]
   

3. Start the Neo4j server.

   $ bundle exec rake neo4j:start
   

4. Run the migrations.

   $ bundle exec rails neo4j:migrate
   

Usage

1. Start the Rails server.

   $ bin/rails server
   

2. Create friends and friendships in the CRUD interface.

   

3. View the friendship graph in the Neo4j Browser.