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CheapSkate

a Solr-like substance for occasions when Solr is not an option

Requirements:

• sinatra
• ferret
• hpricot
• uuid
• json
• faster_csv

Installation:

gem install cheap_skate

Getting Started:

$ cheapskate init my_new_cheapskate_project 

Note the ‘project name’ needs to be something that can be easily turned into a Ruby symbol. Use underscores instead of dashes, don’t start with a number, etc. This (rake task) will create a new directory with subdirectories to store your CheapSkate configuration, Ferret index, logs, etc. If you have an existing application with predefined schema.xml:

$ cd my_new_cheapskate_project
$ cheapskate convertschema xml=/path/to/schema.xml

This will take your existing schema document and migrate it to CheapSkate’s YAML-based schema (as ./conf/schema.yml). Modify ./conf/cheapskate.yml to taste.

$ rackup config.ru

Point a web client at http://localhost:9292/, you should see a “Welcome to CheapSkate” message.

Things should seem generally “Solr-ish” at this point:

http://localhost:9292/select/?q*:*