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Hydra-Head is a Ruby-on-Rails gem containing the core code for a web application using the full stack of Samvera building blocks.

hydra-head is a Core Component of the Samvera Community. The documentation for what this means can be found here.

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The Samvera community is here to help. Please see our support guide.

See the Github wikis for information targeted to developers: http://github.com/samvera/hydra-head/wiki

See the Duraspace Hydra wikis for information at the architecture level: http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/samvera/

Additionally, new adopters and potential adopters may find the pages here useful: http://samvera.org/

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See the Installation Prerequisites wiki page.

Ruby 2.1.0+ is required by Hydra-Head release 10+; RVM is strongly suggested.

gem install 'rails' --version '~>5.1.0'

rails new my_hydra_head
cd my_hydra_head

First, add them to the Gemfile of your application. The new rails application you just generated will have generated a Gemfile; add blacklight and hydra-head as below:

  source 'https://rubygems.org'

  gem 'rails'
  gem 'blacklight'
  gem 'hydra-head', '~> 10.0'

To install all of the dependencies, run:

bundle install

Run the blacklight generator

rails g blacklight:install --devise

Run the hydra-head generator

rails g hydra:head -f

Run the database migrations

rake db:migrate

Congratulations. You've set up the code for your Hydra Head.

Read Tools for Developing and Testing your Application, then read How to Get Started to get a sense of what you can do with your Hydra Head.

For those developers who want to or need to work on the hydra-head gem itself, see the Instructions for Contributors

This software has been developed by and is brought to you by the Samvera community. Learn more at the Samvera website.