Introduction
Redleaf is an RDF library for Ruby. It’s intended as a high-level, approachable, Ruby-idiomatic binding to the Redland library by Dave Beckett. If you’re interested in the who and why of the project, that’s covered in Project Information.
Getting Started
If you don’t already know a little about RDF, I’d highly recommend at least skimming one of the RDF Primers; I prefer the one that uses Turtle examples, as I find the XML syntax to be cluttered and unnecessarily awkward, but you may prefer the regular XML one.
The Design Overview is a high-level introduction to the basic design philosophy behind Redleaf, how it relates to Redland and RDF, with links into the Guided Tour for the classes it mentions in case you want more detail about a particular part.
If you’d rather just start with a roadmap of classes, you should review the Guided Tour, which is an examples-based look at each class in a cookbook-style format.
Finally, there’s the API documentation generated from the source code itself.