PDF Archive is a simple PDF storage and retrieval system. Uploading a PDF will store it, create a preview image for search listings, and extract the text from it so it can be indexed for search.

git clone git://github.com/rwdaigle/demo-cedar-pdfarchive.git
cd demo-cedar-pdfarchive
gem install bundle
bundle

bundle exec rake

gem install foreman
foreman start

You can now open the app in your browser http://localhost:3000

Running this on Heroku requires the following steps:

gem install heroku
heroku apps:create app_name --stack cedar

We also need to configure it to run in production

heroku config:add RACK_ENV=production

The MongoHQ or MongoLab Addons will give us a small free MongoDB instance for storing our documents.

heroku addons:add mongohq:free

or

heroku addons:add mongolab:starter

First setup an Amazon AWS account, get your key, secret, and create a bucket. Then take those values and configure the environment variables on Heroku.

heroku config:add AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<aws_access_key_id> \
                  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<aws_secret_access_key> \
                  BUCKET_NAME=<bucket_name>

git push heroku master
heroku scale web=1 worker=1
heroku open

When it is finished deploying it will give you the url to your app. Visit in the browser and enjoy!

Copyright (c) 2011 Jonathan Hoyt

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