[Blacklight-development] Flare and Blacklight - Demos

[Matt Mitchell]

Yes, that is coming very soon and will be part of the repo, but probably in
it's own root directory.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind at jhu.edu> wrote:

> Cool. I'm somewhat confused now. I was thinking of the 'new'
> Java-implementation of indexing that I heard was coming. Is that
> available in the blacklight svn yet, and if so, how would I look it at
> and/or demo it?
>
> I agree with you on the usefulness of having indexing demos in the
> blacklight distro.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Matt Mitchell wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > The Flare demo is not using the old routine. It's using a rake task that
> > queries a live web service for XML. The Blacklight demo is using the old
> > system, but it's been cleaned up quite a bit. In fact the Blacklight
> Demo
> > indexing implementation is now in one file:
> >
> >
> http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/svn/rails-plugins/blacklight/trunk/lib/blacklight/demo/uva.rb
> >
> > I put it in with the Blacklight plugin because it could be a valuable
> > reference for someone trying to use the plugin from scratch.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind at jhu.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Are these using the new indexing routines, or the old ones? Thanks!
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >>
> >> Matt M. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just wanted to let everyone know that the demos should be
> >>>
> >> runnable/working.
> >>
> >>> The demos are located here:
> >>>
> >>> http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/svn/demos/
> >>>
> >>> FLARE - faceted browsing/searching using Rails and Solr
> >>> For the Flare demo, execute (within the rails directory):
> >>>
> >>> rake flare:demo
> >>>
> >>> This should start-up Solr via Jetty, index an RSS feed from
> >>> mystrands.comand start up Rails. Please wait for the indexing to
> >>> complete before browsing
> >>> to:
> >>> http://localhost:3000/documents
> >>>
> >>> BLACKLIGHT - Built on top of Flare, also provides code for working
> >>>
> >> within
> >>
> >>> library domain (MARC, Z3950 etc.)
> >>> For the Blacklight demo, execute (within the rails directory):
> >>>
> >>> rake blacklight:demo
> >>>
> >>> This should start-up Solr via Jetty, index a demo MARC file and start
> up
> >>> Rails. Please wait for the indexing to complete before browsing to:
> >>> http://localhost:3000/documents
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know if you have any problems with dependencies/bugs, or
> >>> suggestions!
> >>>
> >>> These are just demos, and everything is still in alpha stage...
> >>> API/interfaces WILL be changing.
> >>>
> >>> Matt
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Jonathan Rochkind
> >> Digital Services Software Engineer
> >> The Sheridan Libraries
> >> Johns Hopkins University
> >> 410.516.8886
> >> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> Jonathan Rochkind
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> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
> 410.516.8886
> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
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