How does someone get started using Hydra and its components?
Hydra provides a set of building blocks with which you can structure a tailored repository solution to meet your needs. We do not provide an “out-of-the-box” solution. To create a fully operational, production-stable implementation to deal specifically with your own, local needs you will need to write quite a bit of code. More than one institution has started by taking the code implemented elsewhere and using that as a basis for development.
All this will go smoothly if you have some background in the Fedora repository software and the way it operates. More important is a familiarity with Ruby and Ruby on Rails as the Hydra gems shield you from some operational aspects of Fedora. Not that familiar with them? Well, perhaps attendance at a Hydra Camp would be a very good way to jump start your work.
There is much more detailed information about skillsets, and ways to acquire them, on our wiki’s pages for developers.
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