Hi Erik
Thanks for detailed information. With your detailed information I understand
that acts_as_solr is presently the best available solution to connect to
Solr from rails application for database. And you look forward to bring this
under Solr Ruby development going forward. Which I assume wil
On Apr 21, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Erik Hatcher wrote:
source = DataSource.new
mapping = {
:id => :isbn,
:name => :author,
:source => "BOOKS",
:year => Proc.new {|record| record.date[0,4] },
}
Solr::Indexer.index(source, mapper) do |orig_data, solr_document|
solr_document[:timestamp] = Tim
On Apr 20, 2007, at 2:30 PM, solruser wrote:
For pure Ruby access to Solr without a database, use solr-ruby. The
0.01 gem is available as "gem install solr-ruby", but if you can I'd
recommend you tinker with the trunk codebase too.
Well I say, considering use of solr with rails application.
Hi Erik,
Please find my comments under ">>>" to your queries.
> : 1. What are other alternatives are available for ruby integration
> with solr
> : other than acts-as_solr plugin.
acts_as_solr is purely for ActiveRecord (database O/R mapping)
integration with Solr, such that when you cr
Sorry, I missed the original mail. Hoss has got it right.
Personally I'd love to see acts_as_solr definitively come into the
solr-ruby fold.
Regarding your questions:
: 1. What are other alternatives are available for ruby integration
with solr
: other than acts-as_solr plugin.
acts_a
I don't really know alot about Ruby, but as i understand it there are more
then a few versions of something called "acts_as_solr" floating arround
... the first written by Erik as a proof of concept, and then pickedu pand
polished a bit by someone else (whose name escapes me)
all of the "serious"
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I am here using ferret but looking for advance
features like search result highlight, facet search and strong analyzer,
(synonym and stop word) capabilities. Which I believe solr server will be
able to provide. Considering that I plan to move from ferret to
I am using the Solr plugin to the Searchable module. I have made a
large number of enhancements to the library to support the application
that I am working on that I hope to contribute back to the community
soon (multiple indexes, faceted browsing, etc) but for basic stuff,
you should find what
