# Full text search on Rails using the acts\_as\_solr plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-text-search-on-rails-using-the-acts-as-solr-plugin/169126>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 29, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-text-search-on-rails-using-the-acts-as-solr-plugin/169126 "2009-05-29T20:41:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mauricio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@mauricio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mauricio)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-text-search-on-rails-using-the-acts-as-solr-plugin/169126/1 "2009-05-29T20:41:43Z")

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Hi everyone,

We’ve just released our “fork” of the acts\_as\_solr plugin that we’ve  
been using for a while now to power the full text search on our  
projects. The fork features some changes to the way configurations are  
made, updates Solr and the Jetty HTTP server, better error handing, is  
fully compatible with will\_paginate view helpers and :page/:per\_page  
options and we feel it’s a great option to the Rails full text search  
plugins.

Obviouly the plugin keeps one of the best features that is the live  
index update (no need to write cron tasks or anything to update your  
models, once your active\_record object is saved or updated it’s sent  
to be indexed by Solr).

If anyone is interested in checking it out, here’s our sample tutorial  
at GitHub - [http://wiki.github.com/mauricio/acts\_as\_solr](http://wiki.github.com/mauricio/acts_as_solr)

And here’s the plugin repo -

> **[GitHub - mauricio/acts\_as\_solr: acts\_as\_solr active\_record plugin to make your...](https://github.com/mauricio/acts_as_solr/tree/master)**
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> master

Cheers and I hope this email doesn’t stars a flamewar 😉

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Maurício Linhares  
[http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/](http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/) (pt-br) | [http://blog.codevader.com/](http://blog.codevader.com/)  
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