Question

I just installed the Sunspot gem:

gem 'sunspot_rails'

group :development do
  gem 'sunspot_solr'
end

group :development, :test do
  gem "sunspot_test"
end

If I don’t do sunspot:solr:start before doing rails server I get this error:

> OLR Request (1.3ms)  [ path=#<RSolr::Client:0xa9a3f6c>
> parameters={data: <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><add><doc><field name="id">Post 36</field><field
> name="type">Post</field><field
> name="type">ActiveRecord::Base</field><field
> name="class_name">Post</field><field boost="5"
> name="title_text">sadads</field><field
> name="content_text">asdasdasdasdsadsdsd</field></doc></add>, headers:
> {"Content-Type"=>"text/xml"}, method: post, params: {:wt=>:ruby},
> query: wt=ruby, path: update, uri:
> http://localhost:8982/solr/update?wt=ruby, open_timeout: ,
> read_timeout: } ]
>      (0.4ms)  rollback transaction
>     Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 639ms
>     
>     Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)):
>       app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:41:in `create'

Each time I do a POST request (e.g. creating posts and votes in my app).

Is this a normal behavior of the gem? Is there of skipping or automating this step?

EDIT:

Here is the post *create action* and model, just in case:

  def create
    @post = current_user.posts.build(params[:post])
    if @post.save
      flash[:success] = "Post created!"
      redirect_to @post
    else
      render 'new'
    end
  end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base

  searchable do
    text :title, boost: 5
    text :content
    text :replies do
      replies.map { |reply| reply.content }
    end
  end

Answer 1

Is this a normal behavior of the gem? Is there of skipping or automating this step?

Yes, you need to start Solr if you want to use it, even if it’s prepackaged. To make your life easier, you can use something like Foreman.