Rake tasks for managing a Neo4j database with your Ruby project

Rake Tasks

The neo4j-rake_tasks gem (automatically included with the neo4j gem) includes some rake tasks which make it easy to install and manage a Neo4j server in the same directory as your Ruby project.

neo4j:install

Arguments

version and environment (environment default is development)

Example

rake neo4j:install[community-latest,development]

... or to get a specific version

rake neo4j:install[community-2.2.3,development]

Description

Downloads and installs Neo4j into $PROJECT_DIR/db/neo4j/<environment>/

neo4j:config

Arguments

environment and port

Example

rake neo4j:config[development,7000]

Description

Configure the port which Neo4j runs on. This affects the HTTP REST interface and the web console address.

neo4j:start

Arguments

environment

Example

rake neo4j:start[development]

Description

Start the Neo4j server

neo4j:start_no_wait

Arguments

environment

Example

rake neo4j:start_no_wait[development]

Description

Start the Neo4j server with the start-no-wait command

neo4j:stop

Arguments

environment

Example

rake neo4j:stop[development]

Description

Stop the Neo4j server

neo4j:reset_yes_i_am_sure

Arguments

environment

Example

rake neo4j:reset_yes_i_am_sure[development]

Description

• Stop the Neo4j server
• Deletes all files matching [db-root]/data/graph.db/*
• Deletes all files matching [db-root]/data/log/*
• Start the Neo4j server