sunspot

Solr-powered search for Ruby objects

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Solr-powered search for Ruby objects

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Observed mentions: 2010-03-13 21:19:35 UTC to 2010-10-22 19:50:15 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Mar 2010	2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Apr 2010	2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2010	2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2010	2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2010	2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2010	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2010	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2010	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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nzadrozny·Oct 22, 2010

Sunspot for Ruby is another good Solr client that's popular with Rails applications. http://github.com/outoftime/sunspot/ While Solr's API is pretty easy to work with directly, there's definitely something to be said for using a quality client for your platform.

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jhancock·Mar 13, 2010

I've been down the full text search path a few times; never fun, too many compromises and too much work. Just last week I used Sunspot solr http://github.com/outoftime/sunspot for a new site and wow, what a breath of fresh air. Its the first turnkey FTS I've found. Sunspot is a ruby lib built on solr's ruby lib. But it comes with solar embedded in the gem, scripts to startup/shutdown, complete config files...it just works!!! Add to that, my new app needed to do FTS for Chinese. I was expecting headaches and digging through Java XML hell...nope, it just worked.

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