Thingfish

Description

Thingfish is a extensible, web-based digital asset manager. It can be used to store chunks of data on the network in an application-independent way, link the chunks together with metadata, and then search for the chunk you need later and fetch it, all through a REST API.

Authors

Contributors

Installation

Requirements

Thingfish is written in ruby, and is tested using version 2.3. Other versions may work, but are not tested.

Ruby Modules

You can install Thingfish via the Rubygems package manager:

$ gem install thingfish

This will install the basic server and its dependencies. Additional functionality is available via separate gems in the following namespaces:

thingfish-metastore-*

Storage backends for resource metadata

thingfish-filestore-*

Storage backends for resources themselves

thingfish-processor-*

Filters and extractors for resources

Contributing

You can check out the current development source with Mercurial, or if you prefer Git, via the project's Github mirror.

After checking out the source, run:

$ rake newb

This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs, and generate the API documentation.

You can submit bug reports, suggestions, and read more about future plans at the project page.

License

Copyright © 2007-2016, Michael Granger and Mahlon E. Smith All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.