Funnel Cake

Funnel Cake is an internal site to search and view PA Digital aggregated metadata for quality assessment. It is built with Blacklight. Funnel Cake also serves as the development and production endpoint for PA Digital's OAI-PMH feed.

For more information, see About the PA Digital Aggregator.

System requirements

• Ruby 3.3.0

Getting set up for local development

TODO

Setting up Postgres on your local machine

You'll need a running Postgres >= 9.5 on your local dev machine.

Installing on OSX

Install with homebrew

brew install postgres

Next, set up postgres to run as a service

brew services start postgres

Installing on Ubuntu

Install with postgres and development library via apt

sudo apt-get install postgresql-server libpq-dev

apt-get should set up postgres as a service.

Create a postgres user

Finally, we need to create a postgres role with enough privileges to create and destroy databases. We'll use the built in createuser command with the -d flag that allows the user to create and destroy databases, and the -W flag that will cause the command to prompt your for a password, which is just password.

OSX

$ createuser -dW funnelcake
Password: #now enter your password

Ubuntu

On ubunutu, we need to run commands as the postgres users

$ sudo su -c "createuser -dW funnelcake" postgres
Password: #now enter your password

Set up development environment

Point the envirnoment to the desired Solr server

$ export SOLR_IP="<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@<SOLR_CLOUD_URL>
$ cp .env-dev .env

Install gem dependencies

$ bundle install

Migrate databases

$ rails db:migrate

Start the Funnelcake Application Server

$ bundle exec rails server

To start up a local instance of solr cloud

$ cd ..
$ git clone https://github.com/tulibraries/ansible-playbook-solrcloud.git
$ cd ansible-playbook-solrcloud
$ make up-lite

Set the SOLR_IP address before starting the Funnelcake server

export SOLR_IP="127.0.0.1:8090"

NOTE: The Funnelcake Solr repository should be seeded for the application to function properly