This app is being built simply to test full text search using sunspot/rsolr/solr.

Just a simple collection of searchable nested resources.

The solr server must be running to access any of the searchable models.

This is unfortunate. It would be nice, if some things just wouldn’t work or would fallback on standard database searching, but no. If it is not, you’ll get …

Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake sunspot:solr:start
rake app:import
script/server

mv Rakefile Rakefile.orig
cat Rakefile.orig | sed "s/rake\/rdoctask/rdoc\/task/" > Rakefile

rake db:migrate

mv config/environment.rb config/environment.rb.orig
cat config/environment.rb.orig | awk '{sub(/\|config\|/,"&\n\tconfig.gem \"sunspot_rails\"");print}' > config/environment.rb

#	doesn't work.
#	undefined method `searchable' for #<Class:0x103aed5b8>
#echo "require 'sunspot/rails/tasks'" >> Rakefile

cp /usr/lib/ruby/user-gems/1.8/gems/sunspot_rails-1.2.1/lib/sunspot/rails/tasks.rb lib/tasks/sunspot.rake

script/generate sunspot

#	adds solr/conf/* and starts solr in background
#	use rake sunspot:solr:run to see it running in the foreground
rake sunspot:solr:start

Which model is “searchable”? Or all of them? Do I add a searchable block to all?

Then how do I search them all? Say “moses”, and return verses containing “moses” AND book title containing “moses”? Search verses, chapters or books?

How to create a collection, group or version like Bible or New Testament or King James? Tags?

Book has Chapter has Verse/Paragraph/Page/Section

Book
 title
 author
 release date
 language
 extra text 

Chapter acts_as_list or linked list or both? doesn't really matter in this example.
 position
 title
 number

Verse/Paragraph/Page/Section acts_as_list or linked list or both? doesn't really matter in this example.
 position
 text ( < 65000 chars seems unnecessarily long.  how many chars on average paperback page?  ~1500 chars)
 longest bible verse is Esther 8:9 which is 81 words or 464 characters.
 novels are around 50,000 words so about 250,000 characters
 just stick with the default for now.  it is just a demo.

download and parse bible as example as contains many books

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10.txt

start searching

• github.com/outoftime/sunspot

• collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/03/08/full-text-searching-with-solr-and-sunspot/

• hemju.com/2011/01/04/full-text-search-with-sunspot-in-rails/

• masonoise.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/using-sunspot-for-free-text-search-with-redis/

• timcowlishaw.co.uk/post/3179661158/testing-sunspot-with-test-unit

if intended to be real app, could add …

add users and then ...

bookmarks

perhaps subscribe to book and email it 1 verse a day or whatever "rate" subscribed

allow users to write and share books?