acts_as_solr Rails plugin

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.

Current Release

There is no numbered release yet, but the master branch is always considered stable.

Support

Check the project website or stop by the Google Group. Send bug reports through GitHub.

Changes

Please refer to the CHANGELOG

Installation

For Rails >= 2.1:

script/plugin install git://github.com/mattmatt/acts_as_solr.git

For Rails < 2.1:

cd vendor/plugins
git clone git://github.com/mattmatt/acts_as_solr.git
rm -rf acts_as_solr/.git

Make sure you copy vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr/config/solr.yml to your Rails application’s config directory, when you install via git clone.

Requirements

• Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.5 aka 5.0 [www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp](http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp)

• If you have libxml-ruby installed, make sure it’s at least version 0.7

Configuration

Basically everything is configured to work out of the box. You can use ‘rake solr:start` and `rake solr:stop` to start and stop the Solr web server (an embedded Jetty). If the default JVM options aren’t suitable for your environment, you can configure them in solr.yml with the option ‘jvm_options`. There is a default set for the production environment to have some more memory available for the JVM than the defaults, but feel free to change them to your liking.

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.find_by_solr(query) #query is a string representing your query

# Please see ActsAsSolr::ActsMethods for a complete info

acts_as_solr in your tests

To test code that uses acts_as_solr you must start a Solr server for the test environment. You can do that with

rake solr:start RAILS_ENV=test

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

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Authors

Erik Hatcher: First draft Thiago Jackiw: Previous developer Luke Francl: Current developer Mathias Meyer: Current developer

Release Information

Released under the MIT license.