On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:36 AM, thomas arni wrote:
Thanks for you hint. I looked at the features of Flare.
I'm wondering if there is only a user interface for Rails. It looks
like Flare mostly focus on faceted browsing. Faceted browsing is
not my first priority. I'm developing a full-text search, which use
only one "lucene field". I index all tokens from my heterogeneous
documents into one field. That is the reason I have no need for
faceted browsing.
Instead I'm focusing on:
- paging
- high-lighting of search terms
- summary of documents
Flare does all of those, but also has faceting. Currently Flare is a
very simple (thus easily hackable to your own needs) Rails
application, not much code at all. The heart of the interaction with
Solr is via the solr-ruby API, not in the Flare code itself.
Faceting only appears in Flare when there are "*_facet" fields in
your index. Flare is going to undergo another spurt of evolution
over the next couple of weeks as I tease it apart into a Rails
plugin, making it easy to incorporate into an existing Rails
application (rather than being the Rails application itself).
Whether Flare is the right fit for you depends on whether Rails is a
good fit. Seems like not since you asked about JSP/servlets also
(ahem... JRuby!)
Can someone recommend other solutions?
It really is trivial to communicate with Solr and use the results in
an application. So maybe you'd be better off creating some custom UI
code that speaks to Solr.
I really am aiming Flare to be what you're asking for here though,
but it might not currently be in a state that its a good fit for you
to adopt/adapt.
Erik
