pulling stuff out of xml for display

rails/hamster/app/controllers/solr_controller.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'open-uri'
+require 'rexml/document'
 
 
 class SolrController < ApplicationController
@@ -7,7 +8,17 @@ class SolrController < ApplicationController
   def index
     @search = request[:q]
     if @search != nil
-      @results = open("#{$select_url}?q=#{@search}&indent=on").read
+      raw_results = open("#{$select_url}?q=#{@search}&indent=on").read
+      xml_results = REXML::Document.new raw_results
+
+      @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
+
     end
   end
 

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

@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
   <input type="submit" value="Search" />
 </form>
 
-<% if @results %>
+<% if @results.length %>
   <p>Results for &ldquo;<%= @search %>&rdquo;:</p>
-  <pre><%= h(@results) %></pre>
+  <ul>
+  <% @results.each do |result| %>
+    <li><strong><%= result[:id] %></strong>: <%= result[:description] %></li>
+  <% end %>
+  </ul>
 <% end %>