rake sunspot:solr:start throwing an error - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to use sunspot with Rails 4 and I'm running into some issue. When I have only gem 'sunspot_rails', '2.0.0' in my gemfile I get this error:
Note: This task has been moved to the sunspot_solr gem. To install, start and
stop a local Solr instance, please add sunspot_solr to your Gemfile:
group :development do
gem 'sunspot_solr'
end
But when I add that gem(also v 2.0.0) I get this error:
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'sunspot:solr:start'
/home/toasty/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
/home/toasty/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
I have seen this question:
Sunspot/Solr raketasks not loading in Rails 3 Mountable Engine
but it doesn't seem to work in my case. Does anyone have any ideas? Is sunspot_solr just not compatible with rails 4?

Answer 1

I had this same problem. I don't recall but I found this rake task that you need to add
lib/tasks/solr.rake
namespace :sunspot do
namespace :solr do
desc 'Start the Solr instance'
task :start => :environment do
case RUBY_PLATFORM
when /w(in)?32$/, /java$/
abort("This command is not supported on #{RUBY_PLATFORM}. " +
"Use rake sunspot:solr:run to run Solr in the foreground.")
end
if defined?(Sunspot::Rails::Server)
Sunspot::Rails::Server.new.start
else
Sunspot::Solr::Server.new.start
end
puts "Successfully started Solr ..."
end
desc 'Run the Solr instance in the foreground'
task :run => :environment do
if defined?(Sunspot::Rails::Server)
Sunspot::Rails::Server.new.run
else
Sunspot::Solr::Server.new.run
end
end
desc 'Stop the Solr instance'
task :stop => :environment do
case RUBY_PLATFORM
when /w(in)?32$/, /java$/
abort("This command is not supported on #{RUBY_PLATFORM}. " +
"Use rake sunspot:solr:run to run Solr in the foreground.")
end
if defined?(Sunspot::Rails::Server)
Sunspot::Rails::Server.new.stop
else
Sunspot::Solr::Server.new.stop
end
puts "Successfully stopped Solr ..."
end
# for backwards compatibility
task :reindex => :"sunspot:reindex"
end
end
EDIT~ Source of Rakefile