Gumshoe

Gumshoe is a Rails-based application for searching metadata from disk images. It relies on Blacklight, Solr, and fiwalk.

Dependencies

In addition to Ruby, rubygems, and Rails, you'll need to install fiwalk. If you're on a Mac and use Homebrew, you can install it using brew install fiwalk.

Getting Started

To get started, you'll need to to get a git clone of the codebase:

$ git clone git://github.com/anarchivist/gumshoe.git

Then pull in the Solr/Jetty bundle:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Get the application's gems:

$ bundle install

Migrate database:

$ rake db:migrate

Start up Solr:

$ cd jetty
$ java -jar start.jar

Download the sample image:

$ rake gumshoe:image:download

Extract and index the metadata from the sample image:

$ rake gumshoe:image:index FILE=images/ubnist1.casper-rw.gen2.aff

Start Gumshoe:

$ rails s

Open your browser to http://localhost:3000/ and start playing!