Websolr is a hosted Solr platform offering Search as a Service. Websolr provides a number of features and additional architecture around Solr (TLS/SSL, authentication, redundancy, queuing, and more). Websolr is agnostic about clients, and supports a wide array of languages and frameworks.
The standard Ruby gem for communicating with a Solr instance is the fantastic RSolr gem. Many other gems are built on top of RSolr, including the extremely popular Sunspot gem.
Making the best use of Websolr's advanced features requires overriding some of the default behaviors of these libraries. This can be a complicated and time-consuming process for developers who just want to get up and running fast, with minimal configuration.
This gem automates those changes, so that all a developer needs to do is install the gem itself, and everything else will be taken care of automatically. Behaviors can be modified through environment variables and YAML configuration files.
To use these gems, simply add the following to your project's Gemfile:
gem 'websolr'
gem 'websolr-sunspot' # Only if you're using SunspotThen run bundle install to install the gem(s).
That's it!