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Hydra Head Developer Wiki

Hydra-Head is a Ruby on Rails engine. It is part of the Hydra framework and provides tools, patterns and common utilities for creating a web application on top of content in a Fedora repository.

This wiki is targeted towards developers who are implementing Hydra Heads. The Duraspace wiki has information discussing the Hydra architecture. There's also information for new and potential adopters on the project web site.

Getting Started

• Technical Framework and its Parts
• How to Get Started
• Hydra tutorial application

Documentation

• API Documentation
• Rake Tasks in Hydra Head
• Understanding Hydra Access Controls
• Deployment Hardware

Reference for Hydra Contributors/Committers

If you are making changes to the hydra-head code itself, you will want to read

• For Contributors