The new release v.0.8 of acts_as_solr is out and includes: NEW - New video tutorial NEW - Faceted search has been implemented and its possible to ''drill- down'' on the facets NEW - New rake tasks you can use to start/stop the solr server in test, development and production environments: (thanks Matt Clark) rake solr:start|stop RAILS_ENV=test|development|production (defaults to development if none given) NEW - Changes to the plugin''s test framework and it now supports Sqlite as well (thanks Matt Clark) FIX - Patch applied (thanks Micah) that allows one to have multiple solr instances in the same servlet FIX - Patch applied (thanks Micah) that allows indexing of STIs FIX - Patch applied (thanks Gordon) that allows the plugin to use a table''s primary key different than ''id'' FIX - Returning empty array instead of empty strings when no records are found FIX - Problem with unit tests failing due to order of the tests and speed of the commits == About =This plugin adds full text search capabilities and many other nifty features from Apache''s Solr to any Rails model == Installation =On your Rails'' root directory, just type script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/acts_as_solr/trunk == Very 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) or Model.find_id_by_solr(query) Or if you want to specify the starting row and the number of rows per page: Model.find_by_solr(query, :start => 0, :rows => 10) Get it while it''s hot => http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org -- Thiago Jackiw acts_as_solr => http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org Sitealizer => http://sitealizer.rubyforge.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---