Library Catalog API

Library Catalog API is a Ruby on Rails application which exposes MARC library catalog data and enables it to be queried using HTTP.

License

Library Catalog API is licensed under AGPL version 3. See file COPYING for details.

The project contains files from 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith, licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.

Setup Documentation

Install ruby

Recommended version 1.9.2

Install postgresql

Install bundler

http://gembundler.com/

Run bundle in the application's root folder

$ bundle

Create the database.yml file inside the config folder

Inside the config folder there is an example on how to do this (database.example.yml)

Create the database

$ rake db:create

Run the migrations

$ rake db:migrate

Import the data

$ rake load_marcxml_files FILE=replace_this_with_the_name_of_the_marcxml_file_you_want_to_import.xml

Deploy the application

Use Apache web server and Phusion Passenger (or whatever you're comfortable with)

Creating code examples

Project uses Pygmentize to generate code examples in HTML.

Generating stylesheet

pygmentize -f html -S friendly -a .highlight

Generating JSON example

pygmentize -l javascript -f html -o test.html test.json

Generating Ruby example

pygmentize -f html -o test.html test.rb