title: Integration of SOLR/Lucene search with a Rails application - which gems? Hints?
body: <p>Dear coders, has anyone experience with a RoR integration for SOLR/Lucene?
  In more detail: I set up a test index with solr/lucene for my rails app.
  I need to exchange my search functionality with a solr search now.</p>
  
  <p>I want to update the index automatically, not triggered by the application (for now), so no need for adding documents out of the app...
  I just need to pass the search string over to solr, receive the results and present them in the webapp. What would be the easiest, quickest way to achieve this?</p>
  
  <p>Which gems would you generally use for SOLR/Lucene integration:
  solr-ruby
  the acts_as_solr rails plugin seems to be not supported any more - would you use it anyway?</p>
  
  <p>As I am a real trial and error learning by doer ;-), a hint for a good integration tutorial and/or some code snippets how to communicate with the solr server could help me a lot.</p>
  
  <p>Kind regards and many thanks!
  Markus</p>