sunspot_rails gem - " Errno:: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect (2)) "

Have you started the Solr server?

rake sunspot:solr:start

If not than start the solr server first

And If yes than try

rake sunspot:solr:run

Hope this will help .

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Just configure the rake task with the test environment:

rake sunspot:solr:run RAILS_ENV=test

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Make sure your rails app is looking for the solr server on the correct port.

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