Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr

Re:Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr by thorax on Friday October 22, 2010 @03:24PM (#1821096)

I really like the idea of this service. The difficulty is, I'm not seeing any "Getting Started with Websolr" guide to understand how difficult it is to get working with you. Where would that be?

In my ideal world you would have a demo instance or two where we could connect/query arbitrary test data to understand performance/behavior/etc before we signed-up to host real data there.

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Re:Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr by nzadrozny on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:02PM (#1821255)

Yeah, great points. Thanks for your feedback! Better general documentation is pretty high on our list right now.

To answer your immediate question: we started as a Heroku add-on, so you might take a glance at our documentation there (http://docs.heroku.com/websolr). It's targeted at Rails applications using Sunspot, so ymmv. We're working on creating and compiling similar guides for other platforms as well.

Seems like it's high time for us to do a "review my startup" post… ;)

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