Hunting

Hunting is a Ruby wrapper for the CONTENTdm API. Quickly 'Scout' for collections and objects in your Repository, 'Hunt' for metadata in your Collections, and 'Trap' individual Digital Objects.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'hunting'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install hunting

$ bundle install
$ gem build hunting.gemspec
$ gem install .\hunting-0.1.0.gem

require 'hunting'

Hunting depends on configuration data, passed as either a hash or a yaml file, for local CONTENTdm system attributes, collections, and metadata fields.

Hunting.configure(hash)

Default config hash

{
  :cdm => {
            'name' => 'Default Repo',
            'server' => 'repository.address.edu',
            'port' => 42,
            'download_dir' => 'path/to/download/dir',
            'records' => 3000
          },
  :progressbar => { 'length' => 60 }
}

Hunting.configure_with('path\to\config.yml')

Example config.yml

cdm:
  name:         # short repository name
  server:       # server address
  port:         # port number
  download_dir: # directory path for logs and files
  records:      # number of records to return for Collection.data

progressbar:
  length:       # integer width for progress bar (default: 60)

Scout the repository for objects in all collections.

repo = Repository.scout

Print all collection aliases in the repository.

repo.collections.each do |collection_alias, collection|
    puts collection_alias
end

OR

repo.collections.each do |collection_alias, collection|
    puts collection.alias
end

Scout the repository for objects in some collections.

repo = Repository.scout(['collection_1_alias','collection_2_alias'])

Print some attributes of Collection 1.

puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].alias
puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].name
puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].size

Print the Title of Object 7 from Collection 1.

puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].records[7][:title]

Store all object pointers from Collection 1 in an array.

collection_1_pointers = []
repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].records.each do |pointer, record|
  collection_1_pointers.push(pointer)
end

Hunt for all object metadata in Collection 1.

repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].hunt

Hunt for some object metadata in Collection 1.

repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].hunt([7,11,42])

Print the Title of Object 7 from Collection 1.

puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].objects[7].metadata['Title']

Print the Title of Item 6 within (Compound) Object 7 from Collection 1.

puts repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].objects[7].items[6].metadata['Title']

Trap Object 7 from Collection 1.

object_7 = repo.collections['collection_1_alias'].trap(7)

Print some attributes of Object 7.

puts object_7.metadata['Title']
puts object_7.type
puts object_7.pointer

Print all metadata field labels and values for Object 7.

object_7.metadata.each do |label, value|
  puts "#{label}: #{value}"
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/uhlibraries-digital/hunting.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.