All this gem does is patch rsolr and sunspot_rails to support
http basic authentication. In your sunspot.yml file, you can add
user and password keys:
development:
solr:
host: localhost
port: 8982
path: /solr
user: theuser
password: thepassword
log_level: INFO
sunspot-rails-http-basic-auth is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
Copyright (c) 2011 Justin Ko