Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Hatcher
Mel, Welcome! On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Mel Riffe wrote: Solr Flare is actual two pieces of software: 1) a Rails application [flare] that uses 2) a Ruby DSL [solrb] to communicate with a Solr Server. Is this correct? That is correct. I'm envisioning Flare being more about Rails pl

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-10 Thread Mel Riffe
Hi Erik (and others), I would like to help with this effort. But I want to make sure I understand the landscape (forgive my noobness): Solr Flare is actual two pieces of software: 1) a Rails application [flare] that uses 2) a Ruby DSL [solrb] to communicate with a Solr Server. Is this correct?

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
Zaheed, All great questions. My answers will be vague, since I'm still in the early stages of how this will work, but I'll provide what I can below On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Zaheed Haque wrote: 1. Are you thinking of any user/password/my page/settings what not... for folksonomy/tagg

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-03 Thread Zaheed Haque
Erik: Thank you for your answer. I think I will be focusing more on the rails application part. Some random thoughts and questions for brainstorming .. Some of this questions are really way down .. but I am trying to understand your roadmap rather .. 1. Are you thinking of any user/password/my p

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
Based on a chat with an early adopter of Flare, we decided to split out the Ruby-Solr DSL sooner rather than later. I've pulled out the library code into a separate directory under client/ruby/solrb ("rb" being the standard Ruby file extension). Info for this library is here:

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-02 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 2, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Zaheed Haque wrote: Great! Wow! Well, as you've noted, it's still in its infancy. Being impressed will come a few weeks later, at least :) What are the difference between flare and act_as_solr as of today? As of today, tons... since acts_as_solr actually doe

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-02 Thread Zaheed Haque
Great! Wow! What are the difference between flare and act_as_solr as of today? I been playing around with ruby/rails for about a month and its fun! my thoughts were (i.e. after my playing around period) to create a frontend presentation framework and seems like you have already put the project i

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-02 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: Wow, awesome way to kick of the new year! All part of my plan for world dom^H^H^H peace! You may end up converting me to Ruby while you're at it ;-) Ruby is lots of fun... and with the goodness of Solr behind it, the UI experience will be t

Re: Solr Flare

2007-01-02 Thread Yonik Seeley
Wow, awesome way to kick of the new year! You may end up converting me to Ruby while you're at it ;-) -Yonik On 1/2/07, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm finally kicking off that long dreamed of Ruby/Solr DSL, including an accompanying general purpose web interface to showcase the gre