Sunspot should provide a more useful error message when Solr isn't available

[sunspot]

Sunspot should provide a more useful error message when Solr isn't available

[wynst]

is there a way to gracefully handle connection error on model.save? when our Solr service is down, we don't want Rails to display error page, but still save the model to database, simply skipping Sunspot indexing.

the following shouldn't work ;)

searchable :if => proc { MyAppNamespace::Sunspot.ping? } do
end

[fro]

Agree...

[coffeeaddict]

+1 for the suggestion @wynst gave! 👍

[nz]

anyone want to tackle the above? good intro project for contributing :)

[groe]

+1