A quick start to a Blacklight application using some of the content from the DPLA Platform.
- Follow the Blacklight Quickstart guide up through step 5 (installing Solr under jetty).
- Update your Blacklight application's Gemfile with
gem 'blacklight_dpla'
andbundle install
- Run the generator
rails g blacklight_dpla
- In a new terminal, start Solr
cd jetty && java -jar start.jar
- Index some data using the rake task
rake dpla:load_query["internet"]
. In place of "internet" you can enter any keyword query. - Start your new Blacklight-powered DPLA application
rails s
and visit the address it is started on (usually http://localhost:3000).
The indexing rake task can be run multiple times to pull in other data to you Blacklight app.
When you run rails g blacklight_dpla
it does the following:
- Updates
app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
with configuration for appropriate facets, show view values, and field list. - Updates the Solr configuration so that all *_facet fields are stored by default.
- TODO: Updates
app/views/catalog/_home_text.html.erb
with help text.
Jason Ronallo
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