# Sunspot 0.9 released

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sunspot-0-9-released/172457 "2009-07-21T22:00:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sunspot-0-9-released/172457/1 "2009-07-21T22:00:32Z")

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Sunspot version 0.9 has been released!

## DESCRIPTION

Sunspot is an expressive library for indexing and searching persistent  
Ruby  
objects using the Solr search server. All interaction with Solr is done  
using  
a pure-Ruby API of intuitive DSLs.

## FEATURES/PROBLEMS

Sunspot provides an intuitive abstraction layer for the following Solr  
features:

- Dismax-based fulltext search with field and document boost
- Construction of complex queries with scoping by scalar attributes
- Field, date, and query faceting
- Ordering by field; random ordering

In addition, Sunspot makes search easier with the following features:

- Seamlessly integrate Sunspot with any persistent storage using  
flexible  
adapter structure
- Access objects referenced by facets on fields containing a foreign key
- Combine multiple calls to index documents into a single batch request
- Index data retrieved from existing methods or blocks for  
search-specific data

## DEPENDENCIES

- RSolr
- Daemons
- OptiFlag
- Haml
- Java

## SYNOPSIS

For an introduction to Sunspot, see [http://outoftime.github.com/sunspot](http://outoftime.github.com/sunspot)

## CHANGES

For a full treatment of the changes in Sunspot v0.9, see  
[http://outoftime.github.com/2009/07/21/sunspot-0-9.html](http://outoftime.github.com/2009/07/21/sunspot-0-9.html)

== 0.9.0 2009-07-21

- Use Dismax parser for keyword search
- Field and document boosting
- Specify which fields to search in keyword search
- Allow indexing of multiple values in text fields
- Access keyword relevance score in Hit objects
- Allow stored fields, retrieve stored values from Hit objects
- Support more values in shorthand restrictions
- Disjunctions and conjunctions
- Random ordering
- Control all options for field facets
- Time range facets
- Get referenced objects from facets on foreign keys
- Facet by class
- Batch indexing
- New Date field type
- Direct access to data accessors
- Executable to configure production Solr instances
- Replace solr-ruby with RSolr
- Remove accidental ActiveSupport dependency

== 0.8.9 2009-06-23

- Fix OrderedHash bug in older versions of ActiveSupport

== 0.8.8 2009-06-15

- Escape type names to support namespaced classes
- Fix bug with anonymous modules in Ruby 1.9

== 0.8.7 2009-06-10

- Add --pid-dir option for sunspot-solr executable

== 0.8.5 2009-06-09

- Added dependencies for sunspot-solr executable to gem dependencies
- Search for adapters using class ancestors rather than superclasses

== 0.8.3 2009-06-03

- Index objects passed as a collection in a single HTTP request

== 0.8.2 2009-05-27

- Allow specification of Solr home when using sunspot-solr

== 0.8.1 2009-05-26

- Add Search#execute! to public API

== 0.8.0 2009-05-22

- Access query API directly; instantiate search without running it
- Dynamic fields
- Search blocks can be evaluated in calling context

== 0.7.3 2009-05-06

- Better exception handling when class doesn’t have adapter/setup

== 0.7.2 2009-04-29

- Dirty sessions

== 0.7.1 2009-04-29

- Removed extlib dependency from gemspec

== 0.7.0 2009-04-28

- Less magic in the DSL
- Restrict by empty values
- Negative scoping using without() method
- Exclusion by object identity using without(instance)
- Support for faceting
- Explicit commits
- Boolean field type
- Attribute field flexibility
- Virtual field blocks can be evaluated in calling context
- Order available by multiple fields
- New adapter API
- Got rid of builder API
- Full documentation

== 0.0.2 2009-02-14

- Run sunspot’s built-in Solr instance using  
sunspot-solr executable
- Search hash interpretation delegated to  
Builder object

== 0.0.1 2008-12-11

- Initial release
- Define indexing for any class using DSL
- Search indexed classes using DSL