diff --git a/rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb b/rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb
index dc7b0cb..fa82c29 100644
--- a/rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb
+++ b/rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
+require 'open-uri'
+
+
 class SolrController < ApplicationController
+  $select_url = 'http://localhost:8983/solr/select/'
+
   def index
+    @search = request[:q]
+    if @search != nil
+      @results = open("#{$select_url}?q=#{@search}&indent=on").read
+    end
+  end
+
+  def browse
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/index.html.erb b/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/index.html.erb
index c26ffac..b3454e8 100644
--- a/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/index.html.erb
+++ b/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/index.html.erb
@@ -1,2 +1,11 @@
-<h1>Solr#index</h1>
-<p>Find me in app/views/solr/index.html.erb</p>
+<h1>Find Stuff!</h1>
+
+<form action="" method="get" name="query">
+  <input type="text" name="q" value="<%= @search || "" %>"/>
+  <input type="submit" value="Search" />
+</form>
+
+<% if @results %>
+  <p>Results for &ldquo;<%= @search %>&rdquo;:</p>
+  <pre><%= h(@results) %></pre>
+<% end %>