a simple Rsolr 1.0.3 example for basic auth

rsolr-basic-auth.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# A simple Rsolr 1.0.3 example for basic auth
#
#   rvm gemset create rsolr-example
#   rvm use rsolr-example
#   gem install rsolr

require 'rsolr'

# patch basic auth support into RSolr, until it is supported upstream
require 'rsolr/connection'
class RSolr::Connection
protected
    def setup_raw_request_with_basic_auth request_context
      raw_request = setup_raw_request_without_basic_auth(request_context)
      raw_request.basic_auth(request_context[:uri].user, request_context[:uri].password)
      raw_request
    end

    alias_method :setup_raw_request_without_basic_auth, :setup_raw_request
    alias_method :setup_raw_request, :setup_raw_request_with_basic_auth
end

rsolr = RSolr.connect :url => 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME/ROUTEID/solr/collection1'
rsolr.add(:id => 1, :name => "some title", :body => "some body")
rsolr.commit
result = rsolr.select :params => { :q => "some" }
p result

Thanks for the gist. For anyone coming here through search engines, RSolr now has basic auth built-in. Just specify username and password in the url as shown here.