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  • acts_as_solr : search and faceting       11   

    
     
     
    Table of Contents
     
     
     
     
    1. What is solr and acts_as_solr?
     
    2. Getting Started
     
    3. Basic usage
     
    4. Pagination
     
    5. Faceting
     
    6. Boosting
     
    7. Quick Tips
     
    8. Testing Solr
     
     
     
     For more acts_as_solr magic:  
    advanced acts_as_solr
     
     
     
     
       
    Solr and acts_as_solr
      
    Solr is a search server based on lucene java search library with a HTTP/XML interface. Using Solr, large collections of documents can be indexed based on strongly typed field definitions, thereby taking advantage of Lucene's powerful full-text search features.  
     acts_as_solr is a ruby on rails plugin adding Solr capabilities to activerecord models. It hides all configuration and manual setting efforts with Solr and provides you with simple find_by... methods. acts_as_solr can be used as a replacement to  acts_as_ferret because of inbuilt full text search capabilities ;-) . The purpose of this article is to explain acts_as_solr with examples.
       
    Getting Started
      
    Installation: Installation is well explained on acts_as_solr homepage and getting started with acts_as_solr 
      
    Note: acts_as_solr requires jre1.5 on system. Before running any of the solr methods make sure you start solr server with rake solr:start command.
      
    Our example model for this tutorial will be DigitalCamera [classname: Camera] with following fields 
     
    • name (type:string)
     
    • brand (type:string) [we want faceted browsing on this field]
     
    • resolution (type:float) [we want faceted browsing on this field]
     
    • other fields which we do not want to index
     
        
    Basic Usage : for search
     Lets start with basic search and then we will move on to faceted browsing. You need to specify which of the columns from your model file you want to be indexed for search (if no :fields param is given, then all columns are indexed) :      
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    class Camera  acts_as_solr :fields=>[:name,:brand,:resolution] end
       Basic search can be done using:      
    @results = Camera.find_by_solr("canon powershot")
      More options can be passed in a hash (2nd argument). Available Options are [:limit, :offset, :scores, :order, :operator] 
     
    • limit: to limit the count of search results
     
    • offset: starting index of the search results.
     
    • scores: solr scores for each of the result returned
     
    • order: by which field results should be ordered and in asc/desc order?
     
    • operator: words in query should be separated by "and" or "or" i.e. all words should exist in matching results or any of the words respectively
     
      Note:
     
     
    • If you do not want Camera models objects as results, you can use find_id_by_solr which will return just id's from the Camera table (score option is not supported yet)
     
    • The result of find_by_solr is not an array of camera objects. Its a ActsAsSolr::SearchResults object.
     
      You can get model objects and count of results by
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