[Blacklight-development] solr dir within and without rails dir?

[Naomi Dushay]

Bess,

This is helpful information.  I think explanations in the readme is  
probably sufficient.   At this "get the prototype running, check out  
features, use local data" stage, it was more a point of curiosity as  
to why there were two solr directories.

Like so many others, we are evaluating blacklight and other next  
generation disocvery environments, so understanding how to do things  
such as configure code for your institution's practices, for  
production vs. testing and so on is really helpful.

- Naomi
who got the incorrect title of the Beatles song:  "Within You Without  
You" is the correct title

On May 16, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Elizabeth Sadler wrote:

> Hi, Naomi.
>
> Well, you're right, it probably shouldn't come that way by default.  
> The thing is, we haven't really settled on a good "out of the box"  
> way to run blacklight. For testing purposes, you can run a copy of  
> solr locally, and that's what that solr directory inside the rails  
> directory is doing there. I think its also handy for running unit  
> tests. However, you get greatly increased performance if you can run  
> solr on a separate server from the rails side of things, and to make  
> that easy we've split out a solr directory that could easily be  
> checked out to that other server.
>
> So for me, if I'm just playing around trying to see if something  
> runs and is passing tests, I fire it up and use the default  
> (internal) solr. If I'm for reals setting up a new installation, I  
> check out rails on one machine, I check out the external solr on a  
> different machine, configure them and make them talk to each other.
>
> Is it too confusing to have both of them in the checkout, though?  
> Would it help if we put something in the readme? I'm in the process  
> of writing up a pretty detailed description of how we set up a  
> production instance of blacklight... maybe that will also help?
>
> Bess
>
> On 16-May-08, at 2:19 PM, Naomi Dushay wrote:
>
>> I was just examining the blacklight code, and it appears the code I
>> pulled down from SVN has a solr directory both inside the rails
>> directory and also at the same level as the rails directory.  Is this
>> intentional?
>>
>> - Naomi
>> (who suddenly is thinking of the Beatles song "Across the
>> Universe" ... within you and without you ...
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Naomi Dushay
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