So others know... RSolr had some of the object oriented document code underneath the covers. But just a few days ago, Mat generously created a patch to expose the option of adding document objects instead of hashes only. Thanks Mat! Have you had a chance to check out the latest version?
I think that RSolr now looks a lot like what we talked about here: http://markmail.org/message/ujesla5hdgch7xrd I hope that people will continue to give feedback. Any other ruby+solr users out there? Matt On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:52 PM, outoftime <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all - just wanted to give a big +1 to Matt on this one. I've been > working > for a while on a higher-level Solr library in Ruby called Sunspot that > allows easy indexing/searching of Ruby objects (using a prepackaged > schema.xml, etc), abstracting all Solr/Lucene syntax away from the API > consumer. > > The current (incomplete) version is built on solr-ruby, but a while ago I > came across the LocalSolr plugin and thought it would be lovely to include > LocalSolr support in Sunspot. I began looking for an alternative to > solr-ruby that would allow me to cleanly use parameters and query types > that > aren't part of Solr core, and ran across RSolr. I think passing params > through transparently is absolutely the right approach here - thus > developers of higher-level APIs, or application developers who want to > interact directly with Solr at a low level, are free to add integration > with > whatever Solr extensions they might need, without any explicit support from > the Solr adapter layer. > > Having the option of using curb with no extra effort is also a huge bonus. > > One thing I'd like to see in RSolr/solr-ruby 1.0 is an object-oriented > approach to building documents - in particular, it would be nice to have > fine-grained control over field boost and that sort of thing, and having an > explicit Document object would be an intuitive way to do that. Here's a > simple example from an email discussion (that's been on hold for a few > weeks > - sorry Matt!) that Matt and I have been having: > > doc = RSolr::Document.new > doc.id = 12 > doc.add_field('title_s', 'My Title', :boost => 2.0) > solr.add(doc) > > It would make sense to me to have this be RSolr/solr-ruby's internal > representation of documents, with appropriate conversion from the simpler > hash format when that is sufficient for API users' expression of documents. > If time allows, I'm hoping to contribute a patch to RSolr to this effect in > the near future, but of course it would be interesting to hear everyone's > thoughts. > > If anyone's curious, Sunspot is at http://github.com/outoftime/sunspot - > comments, criticism, etc. more than welcome. > > Thanks! > Mat > > > goodieboy wrote: > > > > Solr-Ruby folks, > > > > A while ago, I started some discussions about updating solr-ruby. Some of > > the things I brought up were related to the way that solr-ruby handles > > param > > mapping and response/request handling. Other folks have expressed the > need > > for jRuby support. > > > > In an effort to get some development happening on this front, Erik > Hatcher > > created a refectoring branch within the solr-ruby repo. I ended up doing > > my > > own development in a github repository because I had all kinds of nutty > > ideas, and didn't want to bombard Erik with patches. > > > > I now have what I'm considering to be a very solid code base, complete > > with > > jRuby support. This library does no param mapping, and no > request/response > > class mapping; what you put in is what Solr gets, and what Solr returns > is > > what you get. In addition, it features a http adapter layer, so you can > > switch between different http client implementations. The built in > > adapters > > are Net::HTTP and Curb. Etc.. > > > > I'm asking the solr-ruby community (YOU!) to please have a look at this > > library and offer your thoughts/opinions on it's capabilities and design. > > Do > > you seen this as a possible refectored base for solr-ruby? Is there > > anything > > there that you think could benefit solr-ruby? What are your thoughts on > > getting solr-ruby to a 1.0 release? > > > > Here's the library I've been working on: > > http://github.com/mwmitchell/rsolr/tree/master > > > > Thanks! > > > > Matt > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/solr-ruby---let%27s-get-a-1.0%21-tp22501321p22919097.html > Sent from the Lucene - Ruby Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
