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Asked: 2026-06-14T04:16:00+00:00

In my Rails application I have a Question model, setup with sunspot solr, with

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In my Rails application I have a Question model, setup with sunspot solr, with a field “text” and I’d like to search in that field doing a logical OR between words. I’ve found that setting minimum_match to 1 solves my problem, however I’d like also to order the results by boosting questions that have more than 1 word matching. Is there a way to do this with Solr? The documentation isn’t really helpful about ranking functions.

Edit: this is the full query I’m performing in the controller

@questions = Question.solr_search do
  fulltext params[:query], :minimum_match => 1
end.results
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  1. Editorial Team

    According to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml,

    The default operator used by Solr’s query parser (SolrQueryParser) can
    be configured with 

    <solrQueryParser defaultOperator="AND|OR"/>.

    The default operator is “OR” if unspecified. It is preferable to not use
    or rely on this setting; instead the request handler or query
    LocalParams should specify the default operator. This setting here can
    be omitted and it is being considered for deprecation.

    You can change your defaultOperator in solr/conf/schema.xml or you could use LocalParams to specify OR via syntax like https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot/wiki/Building-queries-by-hand

    It is true Sunspot’s default operator is “AND”, as referenced in https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot/blob/master/sunspot_solr/solr/solr/conf/schema.xml

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