Vaccaro, could this be a simple Ruby scoping issue, since you are defining a within the transaction block? If you move the definition onto a global variable or declare a outside the block, does it work then?
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Vaccaro, Kristen M <kvacc...@mitre.org>wrote: > Hi, I just started using Neo4j and I've got a pretty basic question. I've > been running the gem using JRuby but I'm having trouble calling on > edges/nodes I've made in previous transactions. So one of the very basic > example scripts I've been working with looks like: > > require "rubygems" > require 'neo4j' > Neo4j::Transaction.run do > a = Neo4j::Node.new :name => 'A' > b = Neo4j::Node.new :name => 'B' > c = Neo4j::Node.new :name => 'C' > d = Neo4j::Node.new :name => 'D' > e = Neo4j::Node.new :name => 'E' > a.outgoing(:friends) << b << c > b.outgoing(:friends) << d << e > c.outgoing(:friends) << b > end > > If I call on any of those within the same transaction, things work great, > but if I run that and then open a new transaction to query it, say: > > Neo4j::Transaction.run do > a.outgoing(:friends).depth(2).each {|node| puts node[:name]} > end > > I get undefined local variable errors for a. I thought that maybe I was > missing a step where the database committed, but when I tried to switch over > to the "Transaction.new ... Transaction.finish" formulation, I started > getting undefined method errors for 'finish'... I assume I'm missing some > basic step, but didn't see an answer in the examples/documentation, so I'd > appreciate any help! > Kristen > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
