ActiveRubic
by Mikael Lammentausta
activerubic.rubyforge.org

== DESCRIPTION:
ActiveRubic is a Ruby module, written for the Rails web platform. The motivation in making this module was to replace ActiveRecord as the primary data source to be operated with the MVC model.

With this module it is possible to use semantic data stores instead of relational database on web sites. The module supports plug-in submodules for additional data stores.

All of them are used via the ActiveRubinstein submodule. Stub for MySQL run-time cache has been made but not yet written. The benefit would be to speed up performance.

ActiveRubinstein requires the Rubinstein backend server. The server IP address and the TCP port are configurable from Rails' configuration files.

ActiveRubic has been factored to use submodules. ActiveRubinstein is a module similar to ActiveRecord, which connects to the Rubinstein DRb server to run SPARQL queries from Jena. MySQL-cacher would use the ActiveRecord ORM.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
Currently supported backends are:

* Jena
* Lucene
* Joseki

== SYNOPSIS:
See the actual documentation.

== REQUIREMENTS:
* ActiveRDF-1.6.8
* Rubinstein-0.88

* FIX update

== INSTALL:

* FIX (sudo gem install, anything else)

== LICENSE:

Copyright (c) 2007 Savonia University of Applied Sciences

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