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Re:Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr by dangrover on Friday October 22, 2010 @02:52PM (#1820947)
Haystack for Django is a really nice way to integrate with these systems. You can use lucene, solr, or whoosh as backends for your search.
Re:Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr by nzadrozny on Friday October 22, 2010 @03:50PM (#1821199)
Sunspot for Ruby is another good Solr client that's popular with Rails applications.

http://github.com/outoftime/sunspot/

While Solr's API is pretty easy to work with directly, there's definitely something to be said for using a quality client for your platform.