I've been using Sphinx for full text search, but since I want to move my project over to Heroku, need to switch to Solr. Everything's up and running using the acts_as_solr plugin, but I'm curious if I'm using Solr the right way. In particular, I'm doing phrase searching into a corpus of descriptions, such as "I need help with a foo" where I have a bunch of "foo: a foo is a subset of a bar often used to create briznatzes", etc.
With Sphinx, I could convert "I need help with a foo" into "*need* *help* *with* *foo*" and get pretty nice matches. With Solr, my understanding is that you can only do wildcard matches on the suffix. In addition, stemming only happens on non-wildcard terms. So, my first thought would be to convert "I need help with a foo" into "need need* help help* with with* foo foo*". Thanks in advance for any help. -- Cory Ondrejka cory.ondre...@gmail.com http://ondrejka.net/
