Connecting rails to a semantic RDF web database?

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I am working on a project to connect a jena semantic web database to rails.

I’d like to know if anyone has experience using rails with an RDF data backend?

I found limited information about connecting rdf to rails (though an excellent rdf.rb library exists). Ideally, I’m thinking of engineering a connector for Active Relation to an RDF sparql endpoint. Unfortunately, I’m a bit hazy on the design of this connector and would appreciate some thoughts and ideas.

Thanks.

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I know it's been several months since your post, but I hope I can still pick your brain on the topic:

I'm curious as to why you are trying to use a Rails server for this task as opposed to a Java-based server since your starting point is Jena?

Have you explored other interfaces to your semantic database? Ruby?

Thanks, Chuck

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I know it's been several months since your post, but I hope I can still pick your brain on the topic:

I'm curious as to why you are trying to use a Rails server for this task as opposed to a Java-based server since your starting point is Jena?

Have you explored other interfaces to your semantic database? Ruby?

It would have been helpful if you had quoted the previous message so that those of us that have archived (or deleted) the orginal could see what it was all about.

Colin

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Chuck H. wrote in post #1084300:

Is the other option to bypass Jena completely and use RDF.rb directly on the web layer interface?