Flare/HowTo

THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS

Prerequisites

• Ruby on Rails 1.2.x

• Java 1.5+

Getting Started

The example shown at http://code4lib.org/node/154 can be run locally following these steps:

1. Install Solr (a nightly build is recommended)

2. Install solr-ruby gem: gem install solr-ruby

3. Download Flare: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/trunk/client/ruby/flare

4. Launch Solr: cd <solr installation example directory>; java -Dsolr.solr.home=<point to solr-ruby's solr home dir> -jar start.jar 

5. (new shell) Import sample data: cd solr-ruby (need to package examples up too, or should these instructions be modified to check out solr-ruby from svn??) ; examples/delicious_library/dl_importer.rb examples/delicious_library/sample_export.txt

6. Launch Rails: cd flare ; script/server

7. Up and running: http://localhost:3000