Re: Solr via ruby

2009-09-23 Thread Ian Connor
Hi, Thanks for the discussion. We use the distributed option so I am not sure embedded is possible. As you also guessed, we use haproxy for load balancing and failover between replicas of the shards so giving this up for a minor performance boost is probably not wise. So essentially we have:

Re: Solr via ruby

2009-09-18 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:09 AM, rajan chandi wrote: We are planning to use the external Solr on tomcat for scalability reasons. We thought that EmbeddedSolrServer uses HTTP too to talk with Ruby and vise-versa as in acts_as_solr ruby plugin. EmbeddedSolrServer is a way to run Solr as an API

Solr via ruby

2009-09-17 Thread Ian Connor
Hi, Is there any support for connection pooling or a more optimized data exchange format? We are looking at any further ways to optimize the solr queries so we can possibly make more of them in the one request. The JSON like format seems pretty tight but I understand when the distributed search

Re: Solr via ruby

2009-09-17 Thread rajan chandi
We are planning to use the external Solr on tomcat for scalability reasons. We thought that EmbeddedSolrServer uses HTTP too to talk with Ruby and vise-versa as in acts_as_solr ruby plugin. If Ruby is not using the HTTP to talk EmbeddedSolrServer, what is it using? Thanks and Regards Rajan