February 17, 2009
acts_as_solr with rich document indexing
A hearty thanks to the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts’ Group, who invited me to speak on Solr+Ruby giving me a good reason to delve deeply back into solr-ruby and acts_as_solr.
Let’s start a Rails project from scratch to illustrate how simple it is to get up and running with acts_as_solr. The example is, indeed, a fairly real-world’ish type of need. We’re going to index resumes, which could be in standard rich document formats such as PDF,…