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https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight

Spotlight enables librarians, curators, and others who are responsible for digital collections to create attractive, feature-rich websites that highlight these collections.
https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight

discovery-interface exhibit rails rails-application rails-engine ruby solr

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Spotlight enables librarians, curators, and others who are responsible for digital collections to create attractive, feature-rich websites that highlight these collections.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight
Owner: projectblacklight
License: other
Created: 2013-11-19T19:49:19.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2024-04-04T17:36:38.000Z (5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-27T23:34:29.673Z (4 months ago)
Topics: discovery-interface, exhibit, rails, rails-application, rails-engine, ruby, solr
Language: Ruby
Homepage:
Size: 7.38 MB
Stars: 156
Watchers: 36
Forks: 63
Open Issues: 221
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

spotlight
=========

![CI](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/workflows/CI/badge.svg) | [![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/blacklight-spotlight.png)](http://badge.fury.io/rb/blacklight-spotlight) | [Release Notes](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/releases) | [Design Documents](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/releases/tag/v0.0.0)

Spotlight is open source software that enables librarians, curators, and other content experts to easily build feature-rich websites that showcase collections and objects from a digital repository, uploaded items, or a combination of the two. Spotlight is a plug-in for [Blacklight](https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight), an open source, Ruby on Rails Engine that provides a basic discovery interface for searching an Apache Solr index.

Read more about what Spotlight is, our motivations for creating it, and how to install and configure it in the [wiki pages](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/wiki). You might also want to take a look at our demo videos, especially the [tour of a completed Spotlight exhibit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A7vTbbiF4g) and the walkthrough of [building an exhibit with Spotlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJtgajJ4ic).

## Requirements

1. Ruby (2.7 or greater)
2. Rails (5.2 or greater)
3. Java (7 or greater) *for Solr*
4. ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) due to [carrierwave](https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave#adding-versions)

## Installation

To bootstrap a new Rails application:

```
$ SKIP_TRANSLATION=1 rails new app-name -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/main/template.rb
```

or from an existing Rails application:

```
$ SKIP_TRANSLATION=1 rails app:template LOCATION=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/main/template.rb
```

*During this process you will be prompted to enter an initial administrator email and password (this is a super-admin that can administer any exhibit in the installation).* If you choose not to create one, the first user will be given administrative privileges.

Change directories to your new application:

```
$ cd app-name
```

Run the database migrations:

```
$ SKIP_TRANSLATION=1 rake db:migrate
```

Start Solr (possibly using `solr_wrapper` in development or testing):

```
$ solr_wrapper
```

and the Rails development server:

```
$ rails server
```

Go to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

## Configuration

### Default ActionMailer configuration

Spotlight introduces functionality that depends on being able to send emails to exhibit curators and contacts. Be sure to configure your application's environments appropriately (see the Rails Guide for [Action Mailer Configuration](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration)).

See the [Spotlight wiki](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/wiki) for more detailed information on configuring Spotlight.

# Developing Spotlight

Spotlight:

* is a Rails engine and needs to be used in the context of a Rails application. We use [engine_cart](https://github.com/cbeer/engine_cart) to create an internal test application at .internal_test_app/
* uses Solr as part of its integration tests. We use [solr_wrapper](https://github.com/cbeer/solr_wrapper) to manage the Solr instance used for development and test.

Our `$ rake ci` and `$ rake spotlight:server` tasks utilize Solr and the testing rails app automatically.

See more detailed instructions for development environment setup at ["Contributing to Spotlight"](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/wiki/Contributing-to-Spotlight)

## With Docker

```sh
# because of how docker-compose handles named images, running `docker-compose up --build` will error when the Rails images have not been built locally
docker-compose build
docker-compose up
```

## Tests

### Run all the tests:

```
$ rake
```

This utilizes Solr and the testing rails app automatically.

## Translations

Spotlight ships with [`i18n-tasks`](https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks) to help manage translations. To run a translation health check:

```sh
$ bundle exec i18n-tasks health
```

See [developer-facing instructions for enabling translation](https://github.com/projectblacklight/spotlight/wiki/Translations) on the wiki.

## Community

- Join us on the [code4lib Slack](https://code4lib.org/irc)
- **#spotlight-development** - a developer-focused channel for Spotlight
- **#blacklight** - a developer-focused channel for discussing implementation, customization, and other software concerns in the larger [Blacklight community](http://projectblacklight.org/)
- **#spotlight-service** - a service-focused channel for people who support exhibit-builders at institutions already using Spotlight
- Google Groups
- [Blacklight Development Google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/blacklight-development)
- [Spotlight Community Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/spotlight-community) (equivalent to #spotlight-service)

## Building the javascript
The javascript is built by npm from sources in `app/javascript` into a bundle
in `app/assets/javascripts/spotlight/spotlight.js`. This file should not be edited
by hand as any changes would be overwritten. When any of the javascript
components in the gem are changed, this bundle should be rebuilt with the
following steps:
1. [Install npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
2. run `npm install` to download dependencies
3. make sure that the version in `package.json` matches your intended release version
4. commit the new `package-lock.json` that reflects the desired version number
6. run `npm run prepare` to build the bundle
6. run `npm publish` to push the javascript package to https://npmjs.org/package/spotlight-frontend