Flare plugin (with Ruby Solr library and acts_as_solr plugin)

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Flare plugin (with Ruby Solr library and acts_as_solr plugin)

by Vincent Pérès :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

I'm looking for informations about this plugin (Flare).
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare/
Is it a final plugin? Can we use it on final production application?
Have you some documentation / tutorial about it? I don't find anything !

I would be grateful to your help that you bring to me.
Vincent

Re: Flare plugin (with Ruby Solr library and acts_as_solr plugin)

by Erik Hatcher :: Rate this Message:

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Vincent -

Flare is currently not what I'd consider production ready, but it all  
depends on your needs.  It is a simple plugin that ties Solr to RoR  
for faceted browsing, full-text search, and Ajax suggest.  It's what  
I'd call a hack / proof-of-concept.

There isn't any additional documentation about it.  But there isn't  
much code that comprises it either, so it's quite approachable,  
though a bit ugly in parts.  You'll find the plugin here:

<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/client/ruby/flare/ 
vendor/plugins/flare/>

A couple of directories up is an actual Rails application using that  
plugin.

The Blacklight team has been working on a  more sophisticated version  
of Flare.  You can browse around their repository to track down what  
they've done: http://blacklight.rubyforge.org

        Erik


On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Vincent Pérès wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for informations about this plugin (Flare).
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare/
> Is it a final plugin? Can we use it on final production application?
> Have you some documentation / tutorial about it? I don't find  
> anything !
>
> I would be grateful to your help that you bring to me.
> Vincent
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