Revs::Utils

Shared methods and functions used by revs-indexer, pre-assembly and bulk metadata loading code.

Releases

0.0.1 Initial release
0.0.3 Add collection name cleaning method
0.0.5 Lock down the version of countries gem to avoid problems
0.0.5 Lock down the version of countries gem to avoid problems
0.0.7 Don’t use this version, it uses the wrong method of Dir.pwd to find the root directory for loading assets.
0.0.8 Add in helper functions to check the .csv files for registration and metadata updates
0.0.9 Add in a clean marque function
1.0.0 Make format fixing case insensitive; add a method for loading CSV files with UTF-8 compliance
1.0.1 Remove a couple methods from Revs code and update the methods to make them consistent in gem
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 Make invalid two digit years in dates return as false
1.0.4 Revs-Utils now assumes .csv files are in UTF-8 format instead of Latin-1
1.0.5 Parse location using commas as well as pipes
1.0.6 Add some more conditions to CSV header checks
1.0.7 Label column needs to be there but does not need to have a value to register
1.0.8 Update clean_collection_name method to deal with other possible names
2.0.0 Updating to use ActionPack 4 for Rails 4 applications. For Rails 3, continue to use 1.x.y releases.
2.0.1 Add more common format corrections
2.0.2 and 2.0.3 Update valid for metadata method so it is not sensitive to blank or uppercase columns
2.0.4 Fix issues with year parsing
2.0.10 Update to latest version of actionpack
2.1.0 - 2.1.4 Add field mapping and other common methods used in both revs digital library and revs-indexing
2.1.10 Display output showing reasons for validation failures when checking manifests
2.1.11 Allow for optional metadata columns in the manifest
2.1.12 Score computation should work with any kind of hash key
2.1.13 Add more information when sourceIDs are not unique
2.1.14-15 Add new engine-type field
2.1.16-17 Add new format authority field and update acceptable formats
2.1.18-19 Add support for newly split apart group and class fields
2.1.20-21 Group field made multivalued
2.1.22 Add original size field
2.2.0 Relax requirement for rails 4

Running tests

bundle exec rspec spec

Release the gem to the gemserver

Bump the version number in lib/revs-utils/version.rb
Add to the release notes in this readme.
Ensure the tests pass.
Git commit and push
rake release

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'revs-utils'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install revs-utils

Updating LC Automobile Terms in Gem

Check out Gem code.
CD into Gem directory
ruby bin/revs_lc_automobile_terms.rb
Update Gem in git, bump version number and rake dlss_release