Hi all, Forgive me for the newbie questions (the questions rolling in here seem to be way over my current level of competence). I'm learning ruby on rails to implement a searchable catalog of items and want to use the acts_as_solr plugin to eventually create a faceted search design.
I feel awkward even asking this as it may seem so basic that I may be missing something obvious, but no online tutorials seem to walk through the process from start to finish. I watched the movie on http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org/ and I can get the application to work from the console (switching the schema.xml file, starting the java server thingy and all that) but I am having trouble implementing it in a rails web application. How does the Java server interact with rails? To use acts_as_solr in a web based application (search box->results list) should I start the java server like in the tutorial? Anyway, I'm trying to make the simplest search box and results list possible. I'm getting and "undefined method `find_by_solr' for #<Movie:0x367a6f8>" error with the files below. I know it's got to be something dumb and obvious. Can someone point me in the right direction? It would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Paul Smith's College Here is my rails outline: Search_controller.rb: class SearchController < ApplicationController def index end def searchdb movie=Movie.new @query= movie.find_by_solr(params[:squery]) end end /models/movie.rb: class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_solr end /views/search/index.rhtml: <html> <head> <title> Test!!!</title> </head> <body> <%= start_form_tag :controller=>'search', :action=>'searchdb' %> <p>Enter Search Term: <%= text_field_tag :squery%> </p> <p> <%= submit_tag( "Search") %> </p> <%= end_form_tag %> </body> </html> /views/search/searchdb.rhtml: <html> <head> <title> Hello!!!test</title> </head> <body> <label><%= @query %></label> </body> </html> The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged Information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately or reply via e-mail and destroy all copies of the message and any attachments. Thank you. <<<<GWAVAsig>>>>
