The RPTF Database

This is the repository for the Radio Preservation Task Force/Association for Recorded Sound Collections Database.

Dependencies

• Ruby 2.2 or higher
• Solr 5.3.0 or higher
• MySQL

Install the Rubygems needed by the application using bundle.

Indexing test data

The repository ships with 100 records for testing.

• Start solr_wrapper (e.g. bundle exec solr_wrapper)
• Run the following (which finds Solr's post script from the temp directory where solr_wrapper installs Solr):

bash `bundle exec solr_wrapper dir`/bin/post -c blacklight-core test/sample-data.json

Indexing production data

Production data is managed in the rptf-index-data repository. Indexing updates should be incremental based on the date of the files. For example:

/opt/solr/bin/post -c blacklight-core test/collections_2019-03-26.json

You can delete records using JSON update commands. For example, create a new JSON file that contains the IDs of the records you want to delete.

{"delete": ["collection_1204", "collection_1214", "collection_1215"]}

Then run the following command specifying your file like the following (note: this is different from the above command):

/opt/solr/bin/post -c blacklight-core -format solr delete-these.json

Deployment

Production secrets (e.g. MySQL database credentials) are defined using environment variables:

• DATABASE_URL (see config/database.yml for the format)
• SECRET_KEY_BASE (see config/secrets.yml)