OpenGeoPortal (OpenGeoportal.org) is a new group of geospatial professionals, developers, and librarians working together on a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data. It is also a collaborative effort to share resources and best practices in the areas of application development, metadata, data sharing, data licensing, and data sources. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
The official project’s application is written in Java (JSP) and the code repository is hosted on Google Code. This is a Rails implementation of the basic functionality given by the Java application.
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
Install the gems and pull the submodules
bundle install git submodule init git submodule update
Run server:
rails s
The console is a Ruby shell, which allows you to interact with your application’s domain model. Here you’ll have all parts of the application configured, just like it is when the application is running. You can inspect domain models, change values, and save to the database. Starting the script without arguments will launch it in the development environment.
To start the console, run rails console from the application directory.
Options:
-
Passing the
-s, --sandboxargument will rollback any modifications made to the database. -
Passing an environment name as an argument will load the corresponding environment. Example:
rails console production.
To reload your controllers and models after launching the console run reload!
More information about irb can be found at: http://www.rubycentral.org/pickaxe/irb.html
Renzo Sanchez-Silva <[email protected]>.
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Licensed under the MIT License.