Fauna

A demonstration of animal taxonomy stored in LDAP.

This example code is bundled with ROM-LDAP.

Running Locally

Bring up the LDAP server

$ docker-compose up ldap

Update the ldap server with our custom schema and add new entries. Uses environment variables set in .env and requires ldapmodify to be installed.

$ bundle exec rake ldap:modify

Drop into the interactive console and explore the relations.

$ bundle exec ./bin/console

Running in Docker

Alternatively, you can do this in the console container. To detach the tty without exiting the shell, use the escape sequence Ctrl-p Ctrl-q

$ docker-compose up -d && docker attach fauna-console

Example

relations[:fauna].to_a

 => [{:dn=>["species=Homo sapiens,ou=fauna,dc=earth"],
  :cn=>["Human"],
  :description=>["Modern humans are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina, a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes."],
  :endangered=>false,
  :extinct=>false,
  :family=>"Hominidae",
  :genus=>"Homo",
  :labeled_uri=>["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human"],
  :object_class=>["extensibleObject", "top", "mammalia"],
  :order=>"Primates",
  :population_count=>7582530942,
  :species=>"Homo sapiens",
  :study=>"anthropology"},
 {:dn=>["species=Ounalashkastylus tomidai,ou=fauna,dc=earth"],
  :cn=>["Desmostylian"],
  :description=>["This species honours distinguished Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist Yukimitsu Tomida"],
  :extinct=>true,
  :family=>"Desmostylidae",
  :genus=>"Ounalashkastylus",
  :labeled_uri=>["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTvZ1AH7mM", "http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=329742", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmostylia"],
  :object_class=>["extensibleObject", "top", "mammalia"],
  :order=>"Desmostylia",
  :species=>"Ounalashkastylus tomidai",
  :translation=>["From Greek δεσμά desma, \"bundle\", and στῦλος stylos, \"pillar\"; and refers to the unique teeth morphology"]}]

Development