Blacklight example for Blacklight Summit workshop

System dependencies

• Ruby 2.1 or greater
• Java 7 or greater

GoRails provides a tutorial for preparing your machine for Rails development on OS X and Linux.

Getting Started

Cloning the project:

$ git clone git@github.com:projectblacklight/blacklight_summit_demo.git # preferred, or:
# $ git clone https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_summit_demo.git # or:
# download https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_summit_demo/archive/master.zip

$ cd blacklight_summit_demo

Installing the dependencies:

$ bin/setup
# this runs `bundle install`, `rake db:setup`, and does environment sanity checks

Running the tests:

$ bundle exec rake

Running the rails server:

$ bundle exec rails server

Starting solr:

# in a new terminal:
$ bundle exec solr_wrapper -i tmp/solr

Indexing fixture data into solr:

$ MARC_FILE=solr/lc_records.utf8.mrc bundle exec rake solr:marc:index

References

• Blacklight wiki
• Customizing Blacklight tutorial
• Customizing Geoblacklight
• blacklight/configuration.rb
• Rails guides
• Solr Reference Guide