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 greatness of Solr's capabilities, including faceted browsing. I've titled the project Flare, and have committed the bits of low-level code into Solr's repository. The gory details are on the wiki, here: <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare> I'm dedicating the next couple of months of spare time to this in order to have it ready for a couple of big projects, one is to demonstrate a faceted browsing front-end on our libraries holdings (~3.7M records), and also to have a framework for even more easily demonstrating and teaching Lucene and Solr to a bunch of library geeks [1]. For the Ruby-savvy of you out there, I'd love to have help in crafting a Ruby Solr DSL suitable for "gem install", and fleshing out a general purpose API and UI. As for collaboration, it'll be via JIRA patches, wiki, and this e-mail list, and we'll go from there. Thanks in advance! Erik [1] http://www.code4lib.org/node/139