400 Bad Request: unknown field 'type'
solr, sunspot
Solution
It turns out that the sunspot-solr gem expects a slightly different `schema.xml` than the default that is bundled with `solr`.
I replaced the file with the one that the gem uses (from here) and it works fine now. This answer explains what the `schema.xml` file is.
Problem
I've set up Solr 3.6.2 on Tomcat as described here. Using the sunspot-rails gem and the embedded solr server I have no problems, but on my staging server I'm getting the response: message ERROR: [doc=Foo 20] unknown field 'type' description The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect. The request data looks like this: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <add> <doc> <field name="id">Foo 20</field> <field name="type">Foo</field> <field name="type">ActiveRecord::Base</field> <field name="class_name">Foo</field> <field name="name">test</field> </doc> </add> ``` What's causing this? Is there some configuration that should be set? (I'm expecting something that allows for the `type` name to be used regardless of whether or not such a column exists.)