# \[ANN\] Sunspot::Rails 1.0.0 Released

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**Created:** [March 4, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-sunspot-rails-1-0-0-released/184582 "2010-03-04T20:58:58Z")\
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SUNSPOT AND SUNSPOT::RAILS

Sunspot is a library providing a powerful, all-ruby API for the Solr  
search engine. Sunspot manages the configuration of persistent Ruby  
classes for search and indexing and exposes Solr’s most powerful  
features through a collection of DSLs. Complex search operations can  
be performed without hand-writing any boolean queries or building Solr  
parameters by hand.

Sunspot::Rails provides seamless integration between Rails and  
Sunspot, managing the indexing and search of ActiveRecord models  
through the lifecycle, and adding utility methods for convenient  
management of search in a Rails app.

WHAT’S NEW IN SUNSPOT 1.0

Sunspot 1.0 supports Solr 1.4, including new features like multiselect  
faceting and Trie range queries. Sunspot 1.0 also introduces “assumed  
inconsistency”, in which Sunspot gracefully handles frictional  
inconsistency between Solr and the primary data store.

Sunspot::Rails 1.0 has several internal improvements and minor new  
features, but the 1.0 release was focused on core Sunspot.

FURTHER READING

Blog post detailing new features:  
[http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html](http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html)  
Wiki: [http://wiki.github.com/outoftime/sunspot](http://wiki.github.com/outoftime/sunspot)  
Home Page: [http://outoftime.github.com/sunspot](http://outoftime.github.com/sunspot)  
Mailing List: [http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-sunspot](http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-sunspot)  
Source Code: [GitHub - outoftime/sunspot: Solr-powered search for Ruby objects](http://github.com/outoftime/sunspot)  
IRC: #sunspot-ruby @ Freenode

DEPENDENCIES

- Java 1.5+
- RSolr (gem)

SUNSPOT CHANGELOG

- Multiselect Field Faceting
- Named field facets
- Upgrade to Solr 1.4
- Deletion by query
- Allow :latitude and :longitude as coordinate method names
- Assumed inconsistency
- Support for TrieField numeric/time types
- Built-in Session Proxies: Thread-local, master/slave, sharding
- Give DSL blocks access to calling context
- Create sunspot-installer executable, which modifies an existing  
schema/solrconfig to work with Sunspot
- Support for Long and Double types
- new\_search method accepts DSL block
- Sunspot::Server now a real class that manages embedded Sunspot  
instance
- Add Search#each\_hit\_with\_result method
- Able to access stored dynamic fields
- Access dynamic facets using the #facet method
- Remove accidental existence of dynamic\_text fields
- Upgrade to RSolr 0.12.1
- Switch from LocalSolr to solr-spatial-light
- Turn off request logging in Jetty for default Solr install
- Full support for class-reloading of Sunspot-setup classes
- Support time ranges outside of 32-bit range
- Remove sunspot-configure-solr executable
- new\_search method accepts DSL block

SUNSPOT::RAILS CHANGELOG

- Sunspot::Rails::Server subclasses Sunspot::Server; no longer needs  
to shell out
- Use Sunspot built-in session proxies in Sunspot::Rails
- Sunspot::Rails adapter compatible with assumed inconsistency
- Use session proxy for disconnecting Sunspot in specs
- Allow specification of first ID for reindex batches.
- Log Solr requests in Rails logger
- Use class\_inheritable\_hash for sunspot\_options
- Add `index` class method, which is like `reindex` but doesn’t clear  
first
- Rename sunspot:solr:reindex to sunspot:reindex
- Use Sunspot::Installer to bootstrap Rails Solr home