February's Meeting: Erik Hatcher & Solr/Lucene
Posted by melriffe, Wed Feb 04 00:11:00 UTC 2009
Meeting Details
Date: Tuesday, 10 Febraruy
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Place: Strategy Cafe
Details: Upcoming Event
We would greatly appreciate it if you could go to the Upcoming Event and indicate your intention to attend this meeting.
Meeting Abstract
Solr brings enterprise-scale search to the masses, building upon the powerful Lucene search library. Interacting with Solr through HTTP makes developing applications in any language or environment straightforward. This talk will demonstrate Solr from the ground up: indexing data, searching it, faceting, highlighting, spellchecking and more. After covering Solr fundamentals, and demonstrating its features live through the command-line and browser, we’ll delve into working with Solr through Ruby, using the solr-ruby library and also discussing the current state of the acts_as_solr ActiveRecord plugin and the work being done with the new RSolr (a solr-ruby refactoring replacement) project, and we’ll also see examples of Flare (a dusty RoR plugin) and other techniques for getting Solr integrated into your applications. After all of the flashy cool stuff, we’ll discuss production considerations for deploying Solr for real such as scaling via replication and distributed search.
Solr for your Rails App
If you’re considering adding search capabilities to your Rails app, do yourself a favor: come out and learn what Solr can do for your application. There are a number of sites/apps using Solr in the ‘real world’.
Come get your search on!
Presenter Bio
Erik Hatcher codes, writes, and speaks about all things Solr, a Lucene-powered search server. He co-authored “Lucene in Action”, has spoken at numerous technical conferences and user groups around the world, and has consulted with many big name organizations. Erik works for Lucid Imagination, a full-service Lucene/Solr shop.
