Cedar

University of Houston Libraries vocabulary manager built from iQvoc.

Manual Installation

Install gems and build the app

Cedar requires NodeJS installed to run.

Setup the appropriate database.yml file for your setup.

Setup the config/secrets.yml file by running rake secret and follow the instructions in the secrets.yml file.

bundle install
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

Once setup you can continue to run the rails server according to your system environment.

Docker

Inital setup for docker run these commands

docker-compose run --rm app rake db:migrate
docker-compose run --rm app rake db:seed

Run Cedar stack

docker-compose up

Stop Cedar stack

docker-compose stop

Usage

Log in with admin rights to get started. Go to Administration section to change account information.

Email: admin@iqvoc
Password: admin

Background Jobs

Note that some features like “Import” and “Export” exposed in the Web UI store
their workload as jobs. You can either issue a job worker that runs continuously
and watches for new jobs via

$ rake jobs:work

or process jobs in a one-off way (in development or via cron):

$ rake jobs:workoff

Dependencies

Cedar needs Greens installed to mint ARK identifiers

Customizing

You will need to follow the iQvoc Asset pipeline when modifying assets like CSS and JavaScript files.