The neo4j gem contains two Rails Active Model compliant classes:

• Neo4j::Rails::Model
• Neo4j::Rails::Relationship

They also implement a small subset of the Active Record API. The neo4j gem uses the neo4j-core, neo4j-wrapper and the neo4j-cypher gems.

• Using Neo4j with Rails
• Neo4j.rb Overview
• Example Application

• Persistence and Callbacks
• Find using a Lucene index
• Relationships
• Third Party Gems
• Scaffolding & Generators

Example of creating a Neo4j Application from scratch: (make sure you have installed JRuby version >= 1.6.2)

 gem install rails
 rails new myapp -m https://neo4jrb.github.com/neo4j/rails.rb -O
 cd myapp
 bundle
 rails generate scaffold User name:string email:string
 rails s
 open a webbrowser: https://localhost:3000/users

The -O flag above means that it will skip active record.

See Neo4j::Rails-Config for how to use rails console with write support.