pduey

Architecture: Rails 3.2, Solr 1.4 with sunspot_solr gem, Apache HTTP server as reverse proxy to 
Rails app, Jquery UI

Note: I don't care about the distinction between autocomplete and autosuggest. I am implementing what some 
people call autosuggest, and I'm calling it autocomplete.


Given the above existing architecture, I want to add an autocomplete field into my app for a single 
attribute on a single model. It needs to be fast and secure (duh). The search target field could have 
white space and the search input should allow it, e.g., if I search with "iker's gui" it should return 

ianAndrewClark

{
  "mappings": {
    "locations": {
      "properties": {
        "recordId": {
          "type": "long"
        },
        "namePlain": {
          "type": "string",
          "store": "no",