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Hydra Head Developer Wiki

Hydra-Head is a Ruby on Rails engine. It is part of the Hydra framework and provides tools, patterns and common utilities for creating a web application on top of content in a Fedora repository.

This wiki is targeted towards developers who are implementing Hydra Heads. The Duraspace wiki has information discussing the Hydra architecture. There's also information for new and potential adopters on the project web site.

Getting Started

• Tutorial: Dive into Hydra
• Tutorial: Access Controls with Hydra
• Tutorial: Tame Your XML With OM
• Technical Framework and its Parts

Older Documentation/Tutorials:

• How to Get Started

Documentation

• API Documentation
• Rake Tasks in Hydra Head
• Filtering Search Results With Hydra Access Controls
• Understanding Hydra Access Controls
• File Uploads
• File Downloads
• Embargos and Leases
• Configuring Solr and Fedora
• Deployment Hardware
• Migration Notes

Reference for Hydra Contributors/Committers

If you are making changes to the hydra-head code itself, you will want to read

• For Contributors