> What does everybody think of SOLR? SOLR may well be a great search server (I used Lucene a lot in my Java days, so I know that part is very good), but it's more infrastructure to maintain. Setting up Tomcat/Jetty/Glassfish is not as hard as it used to be, but is also non-trivial. As many have experienced over the last 12 months in moving to Phusion Passenger, reducing infrastructure integration reduces headaches.
Having said that, I think anyone with serious infrastructure needs (or running in a corporate environment) these days has at least thought about running with JRuby, and if you were going to do that then SOLR would probably fit in nicely. I've only had a brief play with Glassfish/JRuby, but there's a lot of bang for your buck there, and it is a stack that is only going to get better (and IMHO at a faster rate than the competition). The Sphinx/ThinkingSphinx setup feels more natural in a standard Ruby deployment, in my opinion, and is about as pain free as you could want. As you could probably infer though, I haven't actually used SOLR, so this is not much of an answer to your question ;) Cheers, Dave On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Adam Salter <[email protected]> wrote: > > At the risk of being labelled 'blasphemer!!!' (note multiple > exclamation marks ;) > What does everybody think of SOLR? > I think github uses solr as their search backend... > > -Adam > > On 23/01/2009, at 1:00 PM, Kim Pepper wrote: > >> >> As a followup, I found it difficult to deal with acts_as_sphinx in >> multiple rails envs, so I switched over to thinking_sphinx. Lo and >> behold, my search code got slightly more simpler than the 11 line >> behemoth listed above. >> >> def search >> @application_forms = ApplicationForm.search(params >> [:query], :conditions => {:complete => true}, :page => (params[:page] >> || 1)) >> end >> >> Thanks for a great plugin Pat! You're a frickin' legend. >> >> Kim >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
