archive

Upload, search and browse through your files easily with this application.

Development Notes

Background jobs with Sidekiq and Redis

archive uses Sidekiq for background processes and in effect needs to have redis on your machine installed.

Installing Redis

Installing redis is easy. For development, do:

wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.5.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-2.6.5.tar.gz
cd redis-2.6.5.tar.gz
make

Then to run redis, do:

src/redis-server

That's it! Redis is now running at port 6379.

Sidekiq

Sidekiq comes with a very nifty web interface to track your processes a-la-resque. Just add slim and sinatra to your Gemfile:

gem 'slim'
gem 'sinatra', :require => nil

And mount Sidekiq ui to your routes:

require 'sidekiq/web'
mount Sidekiq::Web => '/sidekiq'

For more information, visit Sidekiq's Monitoring Documentation for securing the UI in production.

Docsplit

archive uses Docsplit to break down and process PDF files. There are a few dependencies that are needed before starting development.

Docsplit Prerequisites

All packages are available via apt or brew.

1. install graphicsmagick

2. install poppler (poppler-utils poppler-data for *nix)

3. install ghostscript

4. install tesseract tesseract-ocr

5. install pdftk (*nix only)

6. install openoffice.org openoffice.org-java-common