Building a Rails App with Valkyrie

A giuded installation and build of a Rails application using the Valkyrie gem as its database persistence layer.

The tutorial was written on MacOS, so some of the command examples will be for that operating system, but most of the commands will be applicable on any Unix-type OS.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.6 or later
• Rails 5.2 or greater (6.0 is recommended)
• Git
• bundler 2.0.2 or greater
• Postgresql 9.2 or later (for jsonb support)

Installing Requirements

gem install rails bundler
brew install postgresql

Syllabus

• an introductory overview of Valkyrie via the command line
• a 2-part walkthrough of building a simple repository-like application in Rails
  • Part 1: Building a Book Repository
  • Part 2: Adding Pages to Books