Sufia

What is Sufia?

Sufia is a component that adds self-deposit institutional repository features to a Rails app. Sufia is created with Ruby on Rails and builds on the Hydra Framework.

Sufia has the following features:

• Multiple file, or folder, upload
• Flexible user- and group-based access controls
• Transcoding of audio and video files
• Generation and validation of identifiers
• Fixity checking
• Version control
• Characterization of uploaded files
• Forms for batch editing metadata
• Faceted search and browse (based on Blacklight)
• Social media interaction
• User profiles
• User dashboard for file management
• Highlighted files on profile
• Sharing w/ groups and users
• User notifications
• Activity streams
• Background jobs
• Single-use links

Sufia needs the following software to work:

1. Solr
2. Fedora Commons digital repository
3. A SQL RDBMS (MySQL, SQLite)
4. Redis key-value store
5. ImageMagick
6. Ruby

!! Ensure that you have all of the above components installed before you continue. !!

Creating an application

Generate base Rails install

rails new my_app

Add gems to Gemfile

gem 'sufia'
gem 'kaminari', github: 'harai/kaminari', branch: 'route_prefix_prototype'  # required to handle pagination properly in dashboard. See https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari/pull/322
gem 'jettywrapper'
gem 'font-awesome-sass-rails'

Then bundle install

Note the line with kaminari listed as a dependency. This is a temporary fix to address a problem in the current release of kaminari. Technically you should not have to list kaminari, which is a dependency of blacklight and sufia.

Run the blacklight, hydra and sufia generators

rails g blacklight --devise
rails g hydra:head -f
bundle install
rails g sufia -f
rm public/index.html

Run the migrations

rake db:migrate

Get a copy of hydra-jetty

rails g hydra:jetty
rake jetty:config
rake jetty:start

If you want to use the assets that ship with Sufia...

Modify app/assets/stylesheets/application.css

Add this line:

 *= require sufia

Remove this line:
*= require_tree .

Removing the require_tree from application.css will ensure you're not loading the blacklight.css. This is because blacklight's css styling does not mix well with sufia's default styling.

Modify app/assets/javascripts/application.js

Add this line:

//= require sufia

Install Fits.sh

1. Go to http://code.google.com/p/fits/downloads/list and download a copy of fits & unpack it somewhere on your Machine.
2. Give your system access to fits
   1. By adding the path to fits.sh to your excutable PATH. (ex. in your .bashrc)
      • OR
   2. By adding/changing config/initializers/sufia.rb to point to your fits location: config.fits_path = "/<your full path>/fits.sh"
3. You may additionally need to chmod the fits.sh (chmod a+x fits.sh)
4. You may need to restart your shell to pick up the changes to you path
5. You should be able to run "fits.sh" from the command line and see a help message

Start background workers

Note: Resque relies on the redis key-value store. You must install redis on your system and have redis running in order for this command to work. To start redis, you usually want to call the redis-server command.

QUEUE=* rake environment resque:work

For production you may want to set up a config/resque-pool.yml and run resque pool in daemon mode

resque-pool --daemon --environment development start

See https://github.com/defunkt/resque for more options

If you want to enable transcoding of video, install ffmpeg version 1.0+

On a mac

Use homebrew:

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis

On Ubuntu Linux

See https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/UbuntuCompilationGuide

Developers:

This information is for people who want to modify the engine itself, not an application that uses the engine:

Create fixtures

# configure jetty & start jetty (if you haven't already)
rake jetty:config
rake jetty:start

# load sufia fixtures
rake sufia:fixtures:create sufia:fixtures:generate
rake fixtures

# run the tests
rake clean spec
bundle exec cucumber features