This code was initially written at the GMOD Evolutionary Biology Hackathon 2010 at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent, National Science Foundation Grant # EF-0905606 ) in Durham, NC. The hackathon webpage is here.
The initial goal was to add the nd modules from Chado [gmod.org/wiki/Chado] to the ActiveRecord layer in COR. Those models are now present here, but without tests.
The ActiveRecord models include methods that are present here but not generated via the magic_chado generator in COR.
A simple visualization demonstration is included, using the protovis library. See the badly-non-Railsesqe code in viz_controller.rb.