How to remove Sunspot indexed data after removing model indexing?

Question

I'm using Rails with Sunspot gem and Websolr for Solr hosting. Let's say I have a Solr indexed ActiveRecord model like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  searchable do
    text :name
  end
end

Now I want to remove indexing from this model, so I just remove this indexing code (searchable block). Will the indexed data be removed automatically from Solr? I assume not and that I need to remove/reindex in manually. I can reindex everything like this:

Sunspot.index
Sunspot.commit

But reindexing my whole database will be slow. Is there another - faster way to stop indexing 1 model? I don't see any interface in Websolr to look through and delete records from the index and I can't seem to find any information on how to remove models from indexing with Sunspot.

Answer 1

I can reindex everything like this:

No, you can't, if you need to reindex again then open Rails console by typing rails c and then

=> Model.index

# User Load (15.6ms)  SELECT  "users".* FROM "users" ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT $1  [["LIMIT", 50]]
# [2018-02-27 18:45:04 +0600] Start Indexing
# D, [2018-02-27T18:45:05.439714 #15296] DEBUG -- :   SOLR Request (762.4ms)  [ path=update parameters={} ]

And for the removing indexed data then try to the following

curl http://localhost:8982/solr/default/update?commit=true -d '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'

Let's describe on the url part

• localhost: is the hostname.
• 8982: port number where your Solr server running if you confusing what is your port number then open rails console and type this puts Sunspot.config.inspect it will show your port number.
• /solr/default/update: this is the path where your command execute.
• ?commit=true -d: That is the instruction.
• '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>': that is the method.

I have found this here but it's not working for me because there are port number and path different, I have edited my own way and it's working perfectly.

I think it will help.