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How to start up rails console in the current production configuration

This is currently resulting in a stack trace (similar to https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/16370 - need to chase this down). For now, a workaround is to temporarily edit config/environments/production.rb and set config.eager_load = false. Remember to set it back afterwards. Then type: rvmsudo RAILS_ENV=production rails c

How to delete all items

Recommend doing this via the UI, but rails console method TBD.

How to delete a tombstone

Deleting an item leaves a "tombstone" in the Fedora repository which essentially holds the ID so that it can't be reused in this repository. There may be occasions where we want to delete a tombstone; for instance, when re-loading items with predetermined IDs during migration of items from a previous instance of GW ScholarSpace. This can be accomplished by curling to the Fedora API:

curl -X DELETE "http://<Fedora server URL>:8080/fcrepo/rest/prod/a1/a1/a1/a1/a1a1a1a1/fcr:tombstone" -u fedoraUser:fedoraPassword

where you would substitute the item's ID for a1/a1/a1/a1/a1a1a1a1, and substitute the username and password. If successful, there should be no error or other output at the command line.

How to delete an item via the rails console

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