Vinsol - Leading Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting Firm in India » acts_as_solr http://vinsol.com/blog Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:07:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Acts as solr: Logical Search http://vinsol.com/blog/2008/04/15/acts-as-solr-logical-search/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acts-as-solr-logical-search http://vinsol.com/blog/2008/04/15/acts-as-solr-logical-search/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:37:00 +0000 SUR http://expressica.com/2008/04/15/acts-as-solr-logical-search/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> There are a couple of ways described in acts_as_solr documentation for the logical search, with AND or OR operations. But I needed to dig a bit into the code as the documentation is not complete and doesn’t suggest all the possible implementations of making the complex Logic Gates for searching.
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to start the solr server, it threw a heart breaking “Bad file descriptor” error, although acts_as_solr was working fine on one of my colleague’s linux machine.

I started digging around this and found that there is an issue in rake task that starts the solr server. Actually the problem was this rake task uses ‘fork’ which is not available on windows, also it only handles ‘ECONNREFUSED’ exception which is actually “Connection Refused” error raised by ruby on linux. But in windown it throws ‘EBADF’ which is “Bad file descriptor” error raised by ruby on windows.

So below is the hack for that:

Just add this to vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr/lib/taks/solr.rake, and start solr server on windows by issuing

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