sunspot_rails gem - “ Errno:: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect (2)) ”

Question

I use gem sunspot_rails https://github.com/outoftime/sunspot I did everything according to the instructions on http://railscasts.com/episodes/278-search-with-sunspot, but ge

Answer 1

Have you started the Solr server?

rake sunspot:solr:start

If not than start the solr server first

And If yes than try

rake sunspot:solr:run

Hope this will help .

Answer 2

Just configure the rake task with the test environment:

rake sunspot:solr:run RAILS_ENV=test

Answer 3

Make sure your rails app is looking for the solr server on the correct port.

Answer 4

Make sure that Java Runtime Environment already installed.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer