Hi Rich! Thanks for your valid points and for helping out on the wiki (I just saw your edits)!
I think we do need to make the language bindings of Neo4j more visible to newcomers. The fact that Neo4j is written in Java doesn't imply that you have to know or use Java to use the database. As for Ruby you already found the googlegroup for it. If someone doesn't know about it, here it is: http://groups.google.com/group/neo4jrb/ For the future I'll have to put on my non-java-developer glasses and review the docs from that point of view! Maybe we need more docs that are language agnostic, focusing on "thinking in Neo4j"? Regarding setting up Neo4j, the core database engine is embedded into applications and thus the Neo4j Java API is how you get at it. - The different language bindings will have different setup procedures and thus their own setup HowTo. I guess we have to add this somewhere in the docs: it's not like using a client/server oriented DB, where the server and the clients are installed separately. /anders > Having downloaded neo4j-apoc-0.1 to my Mac, I'm ready to start > up Neo4j and start playing. So I go to the Getting Started Guide > (http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Getting_Started_Guide) and see: > > This document will guide you through your very first Neo > application. It assumes that you're familiar with Java > development and with the basic Neo concepts ... > > I've run a few jar files over the years, but that does not make > me "familiar with Java development". I'm happy (nay eager!) to > learn the the basic Neo concepts (in fact, I think I'm already > partway there, due to a nifty talk at OSCON 2009 :-), but I'm > not a Java developer and don't see why I should need to learn a > large (and largely irrelevant) set of skills in order to start > playing with Neo4j. FWIW, I plan to program it in Ruby. > > So, can anyone point me to a setup HowTo for the rest of us? I > am willing to wordsmith one, if folks here will supply the raw > material... > > -r > -- Anders Nawroth [[email protected]] GTalk, Skype: anders.nawroth Phone: +46 737 894 163 http://twitter.com/nawroth http://blog.nawroth.com/ _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
