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Developing in API mode

Justin Coyne edited this page Jul 13, 2018 · 2 revisions

If you want to just make an API with Blacklight 7 (avoiding the UI components), do the following:

  1. rails new my_api --api
  2. Add gem 'blacklight' to the Gemfile and bundle install
  3. rails generate blacklight:install
  4. Add include ActionController::MimeResponds to ApplicationController in order to provide respond_to
  5. Add a app/views/catalog/index.html.erb to prevent blacklight from rendering the welcome message.