Description

This plugin adds full text search capabilities and many other nifty features from Apache's Solr to any Rails model. It was based on the first draft by Erik Hatcher.

This plugin is intended for use in old versions of Rails. For newer versions, I strongly advice using Sunspot! Nevertheless, this plugin is used for Noosfero project in production. Any problem please open an issue.

Installation

Install as a plugin

script/plugin install git://github.com/brauliobo/acts_as_solr_reloaded.git

Download Solr 3.5

rake solr:download

Requirements

• Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 6.0 (or newer) from Oracle or OpenJDK

Configuration

See config/solr.yml file.

For solr configuration the important files are solrconfig.xml and schema.xml.

Basic Usage

Just include the line below to any of your ActiveRecord models:

acts_as_solr

Or if you want, you can specify only the fields that should be indexed:

acts_as_solr :fields => [:name, :author]

Then to find instances of your model, just do:

Model.search(query) #query is a string representing your query

Please see ActsAsSolr::ActsMethods for a complete info

Pagination

ActsAsSolr implements in SearchResults class an interface compatible with will_paginate and maybe others.

In your tests

To test code that uses acts_as_solr you must start a Solr server for the test environment. You can add to the beggining of your test/test_helper.rb the code: ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test" abort unless system 'rake solr:start' at_exit { system 'rake solr:stop' }

However, if you would like to mock out Solr calls so that a Solr server is not needed (and your tests will run much faster), just add this to your test_helper.rb or similar: class ActsAsSolr::Post def self.execute(request) true end end

Release Information

Released under the MIT license.