sunspot solr in capistrano

solr_cap.rb

namespace :deploy do
  task :setup_solr_data_dir do
    run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/solr/data"
  end
end

namespace :solr do
  desc "start solr"
  task :start, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do 
    run "cd #{current_path} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec sunspot-solr start --port=8983 --data-directory=#{shared_path}/solr/data --pid-dir=#{shared_path}/pids"
  end
  desc "stop solr"
  task :stop, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do 
    run "cd #{current_path} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec sunspot-solr stop --port=8983 --data-directory=#{shared_path}/solr/data --pid-dir=#{shared_path}/pids"
  end
  desc "reindex the whole database"
  task :reindex, :roles => :app do
    stop
    run "rm -rf #{shared_path}/solr/data"
    start
    run "cd #{current_path} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec rake sunspot:solr:reindex"
  end
end

after 'deploy:setup', 'deploy:setup_solr_data_dir'

Thanks! Helped me a lot!

I spent couple of days trying to set up solr with Capistrano, so that I wouldn't have to reindex the database after every build.
Your recipe helped me achieve my goal. Now the deployment time has been reduced to 8 seconds.
Thank you!

Thanks a lot!

May I ask why sunspot-solr start instead of rake sunspot:solr:start?

Just wanted to say thanks!

This is a god-send. Thank you for this!

Great! It works but I have a problem, when I execute cap solr:reindex it throws a message: "Are you sure you want to drop your indexes and completely reindex? (y/n)", but when I enter "yes" or "y" nothing happens and the terminal keeps waiting, how do you manage this situation? (also thinking in Cron for reindex)

I'm using "yes" command

yes | bundle exec rake sunspot:solr:reindex"

This solution does not work for me, as starting solr in this way does not use the schema.xml file in the app's root, but the one in the sunspot_solr gem dir.

I noticed this as I had a custom analyzer and after moving to this solution, I was not getting expected results anymore.

You can find my solution at https://gist.github.com/cec/5508303

👍

This is great. One thing I am unclear about: do/can you run more than one instance of Sunspot/Solr? If I have capistrano deploy to multiple servers (in EC2, for example) with :web and :app roles, will each server maintain and provide an index? Or do I define a new role, mapped to only one server that runs Sunspot/Solr?

Hi, thanks for sharing this. I'm also interested how to use Sunspot/Solr with multiple servers. It would be great if someone could answer njnorrgard questions.

thanks, it helped me out.

I'm also interested in a multiple server solr setup, anyone know?

Thank you!

For anyone who moved to Capistrano 3, I made an updated version: https://gist.github.com/muscardinus/8884801

Thanks a lot!!

Anyone has same solution for mina (http://nadarei.co/mina/)? Thanks

any solution for Mina?

Thanks, but this solution does not work for me.

I have below version for Sunspot, etc.

sunspot_solr 2.2.7
sunspot 2.2.7
sunspot_rails 2.2.7

For Capistrano 3, I have made an updated version: https://gist.github.com/lalitlogical/4c8c047b95fe45da6ae19d1b59411783