# acts\_as\_solr v.0.8 has been released **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Tags:** announcement\ **Created:** [May 11, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/acts-as-solr-v-0-8-has-been-released/12832 "2007-05-11T17:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thiago\_Jackiw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Thiago\_Jackiw](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Thiago_Jackiw)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/acts-as-solr-v-0-8-has-been-released/12832/1 "2007-05-11T17:03:15Z")
The new release v.0.8 of acts\_as\_solr is out and includes: NEW - New video tutorial NEW - Faceted search has been implemented and its possible to 'drill- down' on the facets NEW - New rake tasks you can use to start/stop the solr server in test, development and production environments: (thanks Matt Clark) rake solr:start|stop RAILS\_ENV=test|development|production (defaults to development if none given) NEW - Changes to the plugin's test framework and it now supports Sqlite as well (thanks Matt Clark) FIX - Patch applied (thanks Micah) that allows one to have multiple solr instances in the same servlet FIX - Patch applied (thanks Micah) that allows indexing of STIs FIX - Patch applied (thanks Gordon) that allows the plugin to use a table's primary key different than 'id' FIX - Returning empty array instead of empty strings when no records are found FIX - Problem with unit tests failing due to order of the tests and speed of the commits == About == This plugin adds full text search capabilities and many other nifty features from Apache's Solr to any Rails model == Installation == On your Rails' root directory, just type   script/plugin install [http://opensvn.csie.org/acts\_as\_solr/trunk](http://opensvn.csie.org/acts_as_solr/trunk) == Very Basic Usage == Just include the line below to any of your ActiveRecord models:   acts\_as\_solr Or if you want, you can specify only the fields that should be indexed:   acts\_as\_solr :fields =\> [:name, :author] Then to find instances of your model, just do:   Model.find\_by\_solr(query) or Model.find\_id\_by\_solr(query) Or if you want to specify the starting row and the number of rows per page:   Model.find\_by\_solr(query, :start =\> 0, :rows =\> 10) Get it while it's hot =\> [http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org](http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org)