Customizing Blacklight Tutorial Series (v8.0.0.alpha)

Starting the Rails application

A pre-requisite for this guide is that you have a working Rails application with Blacklight installed into it. If you don’t have a Rails application, you can follow the Rails Getting Started Guide to get started. Once you have create a Rails application, you can follow the Blacklight Getting Started Guide to install Blacklight into your application.

  1. Append this line to your application’s Gemfile:
gem 'blacklight', ">= 8.0.0.alpha"

then, update the bundle:

$ bundle install
  1. Run the Blacklight install generator:
$ rails generate blacklight:install --marc --solr_version=latest
  1. Run the database migrations:
$ rails db:migrate
  1. Start the Rails server:
$ rails server