adding tasks

.project

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>neography</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>com.aptana.ruby.core.rubynature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -4,4 +4,9 @@ Maintainer:
 Contributors:
 * Peter Neubauer
 * Ian Dees
-* Phuong CAO
+* Phuong CAO
+* Carlo Alberto Degli Atti
+* Stephen Becker IV
+* Thomas Baum
+* Maximilian Schulz
+* Hesham Amiri

README.rdoc

@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ Neography is a thin Ruby wrapper to the Neo4j Rest API, for more information:
 * {Getting Started with Neo4j Server}[http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Getting_Started_with_Neo4j_Server]
 * {Neo4j Rest API Reference}[http://components.neo4j.org/neo4j-server/milestone/rest.html]
 
-If you want to the full power of Neo4j, you will want to use JRuby and the excellent Neo4j.rb gem at https://github.com/andreasronge/neo4j
+If you want to the full power of Neo4j, you will want to use JRuby and the excellent Neo4j.rb gem at https://github.com/andreasronge/neo4j by Andreas Ronge
+
+A complement to Neography is the Neology Gem at https://github.com/lordkada/neology by Carlo Alberto Degli Atti
+
+An alternative is the Architect4r Gem at https://github.com/namxam/architect4r by Maximilian Schulz 
+
 
 === Installation
 
@@ -37,6 +42,20 @@ in order to access the functionality.
 
 Just add gem 'neography' to your Gemfile and run bundle install
 
+=== Tasks
+
+In your Rakefile or "lib/tasks/neography.rake", add:
+
+  require 'neography/tasks'
+
+It will add the following rake tasks to your project:
+
+  rake neo4j:install                           # Install Neo4j to the neo4j directory under your project 
+  rake neo4j:start                             # Start Neo4j
+  rake neo4j:stop                              # Stop Neo4j
+  rake neo4j:restart                           # Restart Neo4j
+  rake neo4j:reset_yes_i_am_sure               # Wipe your Neo4j Database 
+
 === Documentation
 
   @neo = Neography::Rest.new({:protocol => 'http://', 

Rakefile

@@ -8,4 +8,7 @@ RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |t|
   t.pattern = "spec/integration/*_spec.rb"
 end
 
-task :default => :spec
+desc "Run Tests"
+task :default => :spec
+
+

lib/neography/tasks.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# borrowed from architect4r
+
+namespace :neo4j do
+  desc "Install Neo4j"
+  task :install do
+    puts 'Installing Neo4j...'
+    %x[wget http://dist.neo4j.org/neo4j-community-1.5.M02-unix.tar.gz]
+    %x[tar -xvzf neo4j-community-1.5.M02-unix.tar.gz]
+    %x[mv neo4j-community-1.5.M02 neo4j]
+    %x[rm neo4j-community-1.5.M02-unix.tar.gz]
+    puts "Neo4j Installed in to neo4j directory." 
+    puts "Type 'rake neo4j:start' to start it"
+  end
+
+  desc "Start the Neo4j Server"
+  task :start do
+    puts "Starting Neo4j..."
+    %x[neo4j/bin/neo4j start]
+  end
+
+  desc "Stop the Neo4j Server"
+  task :stop do
+    puts "Stopping Neo4j..."
+    %x[neo4j/bin/neo4j stop]
+  end
+
+  desc "Restart the Neo4j Server"
+  task :restart do
+    puts "Restarting Neo4j..."
+    %x[neo4j/bin/neo4j restart]
+  end
+
+  desc "Reset the Neo4j Server"
+  task :reset_yes_i_am_sure do
+      # Stop the server
+      %x[neo4j/bin/neo4j stop]
+
+      # Reset the database
+      FileUtils.rm_rf("neo4j/data/graph.db")
+      FileUtils.mkdir("neo4j/data/graph.db")
+
+      # Remove log files
+      FileUtils.rm_rf("neo4j/data/log")
+      FileUtils.mkdir("neo4j/data/log")
+
+      # Start the server
+      %x[neo4j/bin/neo4j start]
+    end
+
+end