Sunspot and Rsolr query

Question

I'm reading sunspot documentation and find that sunspot based on RSolr library. Is there any way to get connection to perform low level request like this pseudo-code:

solr = Sunspot.connection
response = solr.get 'select', :params => {:q => '*:*'}

Answer 1

Not as of the current version (1.3.2). Well, you can, but you'd have to instance_eval a few objects to get to the underlying RSolr object. Patches are welcome at http://github.com/sunspot/sunspot — a good accessor method for the RSolr connection would be welcome.