GeoBlacklight Quick Start

This guide covers the quickest way to get up and running with GeoBlacklight, including:

• How to install GeoBlacklight on your local computer.
• How to create a new application.
• How to add and index geospatial content.

Installation

Bootstrap a new GeoBlacklight Ruby on Rails application using the template script:

DISABLE_SPRING=1 rails new app-name -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geoblacklight/geoblacklight/main/template.rb

Then run the geoblacklight:server rake task to run the application:

$ cd app-name
$ bundle exec rake geoblacklight:server

• Visit your GeoBlacklight application at: http://localhost:3000
• Visit the Solr admin panel at: http://localhost:8983/solr/#/blacklight-core

Index Example Data

With your Solr server and Rails server already running (via the geoblacklight:server rake task above), open a new terminal window and index the GeoBlacklight project's test fixtures via:

$ bundle exec rake "geoblacklight:index:seed[:remote]"