The author has been building educational resources using the example of an asset portal with Neo4j.rb. They have created a Rails engine called `graph_starter` to quickly set up a basic UI for entities, allowing users to override it when needed. The engine can be installed by adding it to the Gemfile and mounting the engine in the routes. Asset models such as Product and Vendor are defined using Neo4j.rb ActiveNode models with special methods to control how GraphStarter works. A rake task is used to import data, and once set up, a Rails server can be started to access the UI. The author plans to continue improving the `graph_starter` gem.