Sunspot Solr Rails geosearch is failing with undefined method error

Question

I'm new to using the Sunspot gem. I have it installed and correctly indexing and querying. However, I am now trying to bound the search parameters by including geo search. My database table that is indexed by SOLR has latitude and longitude fields but I'm unable to get geo-search working.

Here's what I have in my model:

  searchable do
    .
    .
    .
    double :latitude, :as => "lat"
    double :longitude, :as => "lon"
    location (:location) { Sunspot::Util::Coordinates.new(lat, lon) }
  end

However when I run the rake task to reindex it fails with the following:

undefined method `lat' for #<Product:0x1076e6650>

I've also tried:

latlon(:location){ Sunspot::Util::Coordinates.new(lat, lon) }

and

location(:location){ Sunspot::Util::Coordinates.new(:latitude, :longitude) }

I've tried various different options such as passing in :latitude and :longitude rather than lat, lon but I seem to be running into different errors each time.

I've got the following gems installed: sunspot (2.0.0, 1.3.3, 1.2.1) sunspot_rails (1.3.3, 1.2.1) sunspot_solr (2.0.0)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

I realized that I needed to update to sunspot_rails 2.0.0 and sunspot 2.0.0 but that has not solved the problem either. — nn2013

nn2013 nn2013 · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-10T15:49:29

I figured it out. Here's the correct way to do it:

searchable do
.
.
.
double :latitude
double :longitude
location (:location) { Sunspot::Util::Coordinates.new(latitude, longitude) }
end

Sunspot Solr Rails geosearch is failing with undefined method error

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