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Because of the DSL-heavy nature of Sunspot and the heavy use of inheritance in its architecture, the API Docs aren't always the most efficient way to learn about Sunspot's functionality. Thus, here is the wiki, which aims to cover Sunspot usage in a clear, topical way. Feel free to contribute!
If you're new to Sunspot and using it with Rails, start with Adding Sunspot search to Rails in 5 minutes or less.
Installation and configuration
Setting up classes for search and indexing
Advanced Fulltext Search Configuration
Configuring Solr for use with Sunspot in development, testing, and production
Indexing rich text documents (Solr Cell)
Matching substrings in fulltext search
Wildcard searching with NGrams
Sunspot addons (3rd party libraries that extend Sunspot and Sunspot::Rails)
How to setup solr and sunspot on a rails production server
Searching for special characters with Sunspot, Solr and Tomcat