sunspot-rails-failover

Sunspot comes with MasterSlaveSessionProxy that does the following:

This session proxy implementation allows Sunspot to be used with a master/slave Solr deployment. All write methods are delegated to a master session, and read methods are delegated to a slave session.

What this simple gem does is provide failover support if the slave session goes down. Reads and writes are called on the master session.

Your config/sunspot.yml file should look something like this:

development:
  master_solr:
    host: ...
    port: ...
  solr:
    host: ...

NOTE: You do not have to have a master session. If a master session is not detected, sunspot-rails-failover will default to what sunspot_rails provides.

Next, add an initializer (maybe initializers/sunspot.rb) with the following code:

Sunspot::Rails::Failover.setup

sunspot-rails-failover supports exception handling for committing and searching. Currently, it will use Hoptoad by default if it is installed. The exception is passed to HoptoadNotifier.notify.

You can also use a custom class/module to customize how you want to handle the exception. In initializers/sunspot.rb:

module MyExceptionHandler
  def self.handle(exception)
    Notifier.deliver_exception_message(exception)
  end
end

Sunspot::Rails::Failover.exception_handler = MyExceptionHandler
Sunspot::Rails::Failover.setup

sunspot-rails-failover is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) 2011 Justin Ko