solr-ruby gem

["Kashyap, Raghu" <Ra...@orbitz.com>]

Anyone knows if the solr-ruby gem is compatible with solr 1.3??

 

Also anyone using acts_as_solr plugin? Off late the website is down and
can't find any recent activities on that

 

-Raghu

Re: solr-ruby gem

[Matt Mitchell <go...@gmail.com>]

I've been using solr-ruby with 1.3 for quite a while now. It's powering our
"experimental", open-source OPAC, "Blacklight":

blacklight.rubyforge.org

I've got a custom query builder and response wrapper, but it's using
solr-ruby underneath.

Matt

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Kashyap, Raghu wrote:
>
>> Anyone knows if the solr-ruby gem is compatible with solr 1.3??
>>
>
> Yes, the gem at rubyforge is compatible with 1.3.  Also, the library itself
> is distributed with the binary release of Solr, in client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib
>
>  Also anyone using acts_as_solr plugin? Off late the website is down and
>> can't find any recent activities on that
>>
>
> From my perspective, acts_as_solr is a mess.  [My apologies for creating
> the initial hack that then morphed out of control]
>
> There are a lot of users of various versions of acts_as_solr, and
> discussion of that continues here: <
> http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_solr>.  There are numerous github
> branches each with various patches applied - take your pick and run with one
> of them :)
>
> Or go lighter weight and roll-your-own acts_as_solr by simply putting in
> after_save/after_destroy hooks.  See slide 13 of <
> http://code4lib.org/files/solr-ruby.pdf>
>
>        Erik
>
>
>

Re: solr-ruby gem

[Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Kashyap, Raghu wrote:
> Anyone knows if the solr-ruby gem is compatible with solr 1.3??

Yes, the gem at rubyforge is compatible with 1.3.  Also, the library  
itself is distributed with the binary release of Solr, in client/ruby/ 
solr-ruby/lib

> Also anyone using acts_as_solr plugin? Off late the website is down  
> and
> can't find any recent activities on that

 From my perspective, acts_as_solr is a mess.  [My apologies for  
creating the initial hack that then morphed out of control]

There are a lot of users of various versions of acts_as_solr, and  
discussion of that continues here: <http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_solr 
 >.  There are numerous github branches each with various patches  
applied - take your pick and run with one of them :)

Or go lighter weight and roll-your-own acts_as_solr by simply putting  
in after_save/after_destroy hooks.  See slide 13 of <http://code4lib.org/files/solr-ruby.pdf 
 >

	Erik