Re-namespacing a bit to clear out some fairly old stuff from the top level

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/controllers/application_controller.rb

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+# Filters added to this controller apply to all controllers in the application.
+# Likewise, all the methods added will be available for all controllers.
+
+class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
+  helper :all # include all helpers, all the time
+  protect_from_forgery # See ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection for details
+
+  # Scrub sensitive parameters from your log
+  # filter_parameter_logging :password
+end

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb

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+require 'open-uri'
+require 'rexml/document'
+
+
+class SolrController < ApplicationController
+  include SolrHelper
+
+  def simple_query
+    @search = request[:q]
+    @results = []
+    if @search != nil
+      @results = get_results(@search)
+    end
+  end
+
+  def index
+  end
+end

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/helpers/application_helper.rb

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+# Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the application.
+module ApplicationHelper
+end

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/helpers/solr_helper.rb

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+module SolrHelper
+  $select_url = 'http://localhost:8983/solr/select/'
+  $redis = '/home/me/repos/redis.git/src/redis-cli'
+
+  def get_results(search)
+    cached = `#{$redis} GET "query:#{search}"`
+
+    if cached.strip().length > 0
+      # puts "cached=#{cached}"
+      xml_results = REXML::Document.new cached
+    else
+      raw_results = open("#{$select_url}?q=#{search}").read
+      # puts "caching '#{raw_results}'"
+      `#{$redis} SET "query:#{search}" '#{raw_results}'`
+
+      xml_results = REXML::Document.new raw_results
+    end
+
+    results = []
+    REXML::XPath.each(xml_results, '//result/doc') do |doc|
+      results.push({
+        :id => doc.elements['./str[@name="id"]'],
+        :description => doc.elements['./str[@name="name"]']
+      })
+    end
+
+    return results
+  end
+
+end

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/index.html.erb

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+<h1>Index</h1>

oldstuff/RubyFun/rails/hamster/app/views/solr/simple_query.html.erb

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+
+<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.length %>
+  <p>Results for &ldquo;<%= @search %>&rdquo;:</p>
+  <ul>
+  <% @results.each do |result| %>
+    <li><strong><%= result[:id] %></strong>: <%= result[:description] %></li>
+  <% end %>
+  </ul>
+<% end %>