I would add that it is pretty easy to get started with on Rails as well. Using t...

mej10 on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0

I would add that it is pretty easy to get started with on Rails as well. Using the Sunspot library for Solr is super easy to use and has been really flexible for our use cases. It is a solid piece of software.