Silently fail instead of raising an exception when an error occurs while writing to Solr.

1-sunspot-1.2-silent-fail.rb

###
#
# Custom write failure handling when there is an error writing to Solr.
# Install this in an initializer.
# Prints error messages to stderr.
#
# NOTE: does not fail for reads; you should catch those exceptions in your controller.
#
##

Sunspot.session = Sunspot::SessionProxy::SilentFailSessionProxy.new(Sunspot.session)

2-sunspot-1.2-silent-fail-custom.rb

###
#
# Silently fail instead of raising an exception when an error occurs while writing to Solr.
# Install this in an initializer.
#
# NOTE: does not fail for reads; you should catch those exceptions in your controller.
#
##

class CustomSilentFailSessionProxy < Sunspot::SessionProxy::SilentFailSessionProxy
  def rescued_exception(method_name, e)
    # handle the exception, e, however you like!
  end
end

Sunspot.session = CustomSilentFailSessionProxy.new(Sunspot.session)