Neo4j on Heroku with Sinatra using Neography

This is a tiny little Neo4j application, a 'seed' ready to grow into graph-powered glory.

• Neo4j - the graph database
• Neography - a ruby driver
• Heroku - cloud hosting simplicity
• Neo4j Add-On - Neo4j on Heroku

Clone, Build and Go!

1. Get Neo4j
   • Download Neo4j
   • Follow Neo4j's README to start the database
   • Make sure it is running by browsing Neo4j's Web Interface at http://localhost:7474
2. Get this seed app
   • git clone https://github.com/akollegger/neo4j-heroku-seeds.git
   • cd neo4j-heroku-seeds/ruby/sinatra-neography
3. Prepare the app
   • bundle install
4. Run it locally
   • ruby graphapp.rb
   • Browse http://localhost:4567

Deploying to Heroku

1. Got Heroku? Get it
   • create an account on Heroku
   • get the Heroku Toolbelt
   • prepare the CLI with heroku login
   • make sure your public SSH keys are available to Heroku
2. Heroku'ify the seed application
   • use the detachme.sh script to make the subdir into a separate repository: sh detachme.sh
   • create the heroku app: heroku create
3. Provision Neo4j Add-on
   • heroku addons:add neo4j
   • Give the database a minute to start up
4. Deploy to Heroku
   • git push heroku master
5. Make sure that it launched successfully
   • heroku ps
   • Any problems? Check heroku logs
6. Browse your application
   • heroku open