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?
Plus, the current state/status of Solr Flare is that the UI is yet to be
developed but the communication piece works. Is this also correct?
What work is next?
Thanks,
Mel Riffe
Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/solrb>
>
> Flare will be the user interface that leverages solrb to communicate
> with Solr, though currently the Flare code is just an empty Rails
> generated application. It'll start being useful very soon. There
> are quite a few folks already dipping into this, so this all should
> evolve fairly quickly over the next few weeks.
>
> Erik
>
>>> 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
>
>
>
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