A quick start to a Blacklight application using some of the content from the DPLA Platform.

1. Follow the Blacklight Quickstart guide up through step 5 (installing Solr under jetty).
2. Update your Blacklight application's Gemfile with gem 'blacklight_dpla' and bundle install
3. Run the generator rails g blacklight_dpla
4. In a new terminal, start Solr cd jetty && java -jar start.jar
5. Index some data using the rake task rake dpla:load_query["internet"]. In place of "internet" you can enter any keyword query.
6. Start your new Blacklight-powered DPLA application rails s and visit the address it is started on (usually http://localhost:3000).

The indexing rake task can be run multiple times to pull in other data to you Blacklight app.

When you run rails g blacklight_dpla it does the following:

1. Updates app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb with configuration for appropriate facets, show view values, and field list.
2. Updates the Solr configuration so that all *_facet fields are stored by default.
3. TODO: Updates app/views/catalog/_home_text.html.erb with help text.

Jason Ronallo

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