Worthwhile: A tour

Justin Coyne

Data Curation Experts

What is Worthwhile?

• Rails engine stand up a fully functioning repository
• Evolution of Curate/Sufia

Q: Why leave Curate?

A: Complexity

• DOI
• Several pre-built models
• Linked-creators

Q: Why leave Curate?

A: Tests were too slow

Q: Why leave Curate?

A: Community is too conservative for rapid change.

• Too many parties with an investment in the software
• Too few people with the power to review/merge pull requests
• Lack of communication about the boundaries
• We didn't take the time to get very involved in steering
• Our velocity on the Case project was too low

Q: Why leave Curate?

A: Old versions of dependencies

• Based on Hydra 6, Blacklight 4, Bootstrap 2

Solutions

• Borrow heavily from Curate
• Cut out all the different work types, DOI, Linked Contributors
• Get out of the community process until we have something stable
• Upgrade all the dependencies
• Utilize Sufia better

Demo Case Digital Library

Now it's your turn

Prerequisites

$ rails --version
Rails 4.1.6

Installing

$ rails new worthwhile_demo
$ cd worthwhile_demo

Add the gem

Open Gemfile and add these lines

gem 'worthwhile'

Uncomment this line:

gem 'therubyracer'

Save the file and quit the editor.

Install Dependencies

On the command line type:

$ bundle install

When this is complete you should see:

...
Your bundle is complete!
Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.

Run the generator

$ rails generate worthwhile:install

Setup a test Jetty with Fedora/Solr

If you've already downloaded jettywrapper move the v7.0.0.zip file into tmp/

cp /home/vagrant/v7.0.0.zip tmp/

$ rake jetty:unzip jetty:config

Start Jetty

$ rake jetty:start

Run the database migrations

$ rake db:migrate

Start the server

$ rails server

Start the background workers

$ TERM_CHILD=1 QUEUE=* rake environment resque:work

Make a custom work type

$ rails generate worthwhile:work ScholarlyPaper

Custom Work

• Model - app/repository_models/scholarly_paper.rb
• Actor - app/actors/curation_concern/scholarly_paper_actor.rb
• Controller - app/controllers/curation_concern/scholarly_papers_controller.rb
• Views - app/views/curation_concern/scholarly_papers/ (empty)
• Registered in config/initializers/worthwhile_config.rb

Fin