Umlaut Installation

To install Umlaut

Rails recommends Ruby 1.8.4 (and requires at least 1.8.2, but 1.8.3 is incompatible). Some Red Hat versions may come with only 1.8.1. Try installing Ruby with your package manager of choice, and see if you can get 1.8.4. If not, try installing from source:

1. [Download 1.8.4>http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/7858/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz]
2. tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
3. cd ruby-1.8.4
4. sudo ./configure
5. sudo make
6. sudo make install

Again, your package manager may be able to supply this (for example "yum install rubygems), but if not, you could again install from source:

1. [Download here>http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126]
2. tar -zxvf rubygems-x.x.x.tar.gz
3. cd rubygems-x.x.x
4. sudo ruby setup.rb

( actually don't do this, to be safe # sudo gem update)

[NOTE: Right now, umlaut may only work with rubygems 0.9. Working on it!]

Umlaut is currently tested with Rails 1.2.1, and bound to it in the default environment.rb. So install the 1.2.1 version of Rails (you can have multiple versions of Rails installed simulataneously, don't worry about this overwriting a more recent version of Rails you may want--it won't.0

"sudo gem install rails -v 1.2.1" (say yes to any dependencies)

You could change the environment.rb to accept a more recent version, but don't accidentally commit that! At some point, we should test and ensure it with a more recent version (2.x?), and bump it up.

Note: There are various guides available on the net to getting Ruby/Rubygems/Rails installed on various OSs. Consult if you have trouble.

Right now, the best (only) way to install Umlaut is from it's SVN store.

For a read-only checkout:

svn checkout http://umlaut.rubyforge.org/svn/U2/ ./Umlaut

For a checkout with commit privs, you need a rubyforge account and to be added to the umlaut project, then:

svn checkout svn+ssh://(developername)@rubyforge.org/var/svn/umlaut/U2 ./Umlaut

Umlaut comes with a number of Ruby gems and Rails plugins "frozen" into it's distribution, in vendor/plugins. You do not need to install these, they come with Umlaut. These include: ferret; oai; ruby-json (this is gem 'ruby-json', an OLD version of what is now just 'json'. We really ought to update sometime); sru; xisbn; acts_as_ferret; enumerations_mixin ; app_config (plugin); isbn-tools (plugin) ; openurl ( svn external link in plugin; needs to be fixed to link to a specific tag ); htmlentities http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/

However, there are a few plugins that can not be conveniently packaged with Umlaut, you need to install them yourself...

mongrel

(Umlaut will not run with WEBrick due to threading issues. Recommend installing mongrel for testing and deployment. mongrel 1.1.4 or later is highly reccommended. )

sudo gem install mongrel

hpricot

(hpricot is compiled C code, so you are best off installing it yourself. Right now hpricot 0.6 is tested and confirmed. )

sudo gem install hpricot -v 0.6

json =

json is also a native compiled C app, so it's not included in the Umlaut distro, install it yourself. Currently verified with 1.0.4.

sudo gem install json -v 1.0.4

mysql

not neccesarily required, but mysql is the reccomended db. Umlaut won't usually run with SQLite3 due to threading issues.

Rails is supposed to be able to talk to mysql without the mysql gem installed (just less efficiently), but for some reason Umlaut seems to have trouble with this. Not sure, you can try it.

sudo gem install msyql

Except some additional configuration arguments may be neccesary to compile on your machine. On a RedHat machine, this works:

sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config

More optional gems

• If you have a google API key and want to use google services, you may want Ruby/Google
• There are some untested services that use Connotea and require ConnoteaRuby, although Umlaut at present does not have stable Connotea integration.
• Voyager sites that want to bypass z39.50 and access Oracle directly will need Oracle Instant Client or Full Client installed on the same machine as the Umlaut.Oracle OCI8 Oracle Instant Client

Good job, you've got all software installed, now you need to do some setup. See Umlaut Setup.