= acts_as_solr Rails plugin
This plugin adds full text search capabilities and many other nifty features from Apache's Solr[http://lucene.apache.org/solr/] to any Rails model.
It was based on the first draft by Erik Hatcher.

== Current Release
The current stable release is v0.9 and was released on 06-18-2007.

== Changes
Please refer to the CHANGE_LOG[link:files/CHANGE_LOG.html]

== Installation
=== Requirements
* Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.5 aka 5.0 (http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp)

=== Default
On your Rails' root directory, just type

  script/plugin install svn://svn.railsfreaks.com/projects/acts_as_solr/trunk

== Basic Usage
Just include the line below to any of your ActiveRecord models:

  acts_as_solr

Or if you want, you can specify only the fields that should be indexed:

  acts_as_solr :fields => [:name, :author]

Then to find instances of your model, just do:

  Model.find_by_solr(query) #Query is a string representing your query

Please see ActsAsSolr::ActsMethods for a complete info

== Authors
Erik Hatcher:: First draft
Thiago Jackiw:: Current developer (tjackiw at gmail dot com)

== Release Information
Released under the MIT license.

== More info
http://acts-as-solr.railsfreaks.com
http://acts_as_solr.railsfreaks.com