I don't really know alot about Ruby, but as i understand it there are more then a few versions of something called "acts_as_solr" floating arround ... the first written by Erik as a proof of concept, and then pickedu pand polished a bit by someone else (whose name escapes me)
all of the "serious" ruby/solr development i know about is happening as part of the "Flare" sub-sub project... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolRuby ...most of the people workign on it seem to hang out on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. as i understand it the "solr-ruby" package is a low level ruby<->solr API, with Flare being a higher level reusable Rails app type thingamombob. (can you tell i don't know a lot about RUby or rails? ... i'm winging it) : Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:52:00 -0700 : From: amit rohatgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: [acts_as_solr] Few question on usage : : Hi : : Here are few question for solr integrating with ruby : : 1. What are other alternatives are available for ruby integration with solr : other than acts-as_solr plugin. : 2. acts_as_solr plugin - does it support highlighting feature : 3. performance benchmark for acts_as_solr plugin available if any : : : -thanks : dev : -Hoss