This is part of a larger tutorial created and presented as "Walkthrough of GeoConcerns".

Note: If you have issues with any of these steps, a prebuilt version of this application is available within the provided virtual machine. The application can be accessed by SSHing into the virtual maching and then changing directory to pregenerated/demo_geoconcerns_app.

Create your application

Prerequisite: Make sure your environment is setup.

  1. Generate your Rails application
  2. Install GeoConcerns
  3. Install RSpec

Generating your Rails application

For more information about generating a Rails application see the Getting Started with Rails guide.

  1. Switch to the root user

    $ sudo -i
$ cd /home/vagrant

  2. Create a new Rails application

    $ rails new your_app_name

  3. Switch to its folder

    $ cd your_app_name

  4. Run the rails server.

    $ rails s -b 0.0.0.0

    We are running the Rails server with the “-b” option which is binding the server to the 0.0.0.0 IP address. This is only necessary if your are running the application on your Vagrant virtual machine.

    Now you can visit the Rails application at http://127.0.0.1:3000. You should see Yay! You’re on Rails!” CTRL + c will stop server.

    rails_welcome

  5. Optional Initialize your git repository and commit your changes

    $ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'initial commit of Rails application'

Install GeoConcerns

  1. Add GeoConcerns to your Gemfile. Add this line to the end:

    # In ./Gemfile
gem 'geo_concerns', git: 'https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/geo_concerns.git', branch: 'workshop'

  2. Install required gems and their dependencies

    $ bundle install

  3. Run the CurationConcerns generator

    $ rails generate curation_concerns:install -f

  4. Run the GeoConcerns generator

    $ rails generate geo_concerns:install -f

  5. Run database migrations

    $ rake db:migrate

    Quick tip: All of these tasks (1 - 5) are included as part of template to generate a new GeoConcerns application. To run that generator just run:

    $ rails new app-name -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projecthydra-labs/geo_concerns/workshop/template.rb

  6. Change ActiveJob to queue adapter to inline. This is workaround for some issues with running background jobs on the Vagrant image. Add this line to the end of the development environment file:

    # In ./config/environments/development.rb
Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :inline

  7. Now start your Rails application again and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3000. You should see the GeoConcerns homepage.

    $ rails s -b 0.0.0.0

  8. Optional Commit your work

    $ git add .
$ git commit -m 'installed CurationConcerns and GeoConcerns'

    Great job for making it this far. You now have a working GeoConcerns application!

Next Steps

So far you have a working GeoConcerns application with a test framework installed. Now we’ll start the app and walk through some of the features.

Next → Part 3 - Starting the application