---
title: "My first Scout plugin!"
date: 2013-09-09
canonical: https://michaelshadle.com/2013/09/08/my-first-scout-plugin
---

# My first Scout plugin!

I'm digging [Scout](http://www.scoutapp.com) so far, and it has almost all the plugins I would want already in their plugin directory. However, I did want to add in a Solr "healthcheck", since we've noticed some oddities with our search index.

Here is a quick-and-dirty way to get the number of results based on an empty search (i.e. the entire index) for a single Solr core on localhost. Maybe this will help somebody else out there. I suppose it could be paramterized with hostnames, search strings, etc... and it wouldn't be that hard either from what it looks like.

Enjoy.

Filename: solr.rb

```
class SolrResultCount < Scout::Plugin

  needs "rubygems"
  needs "json"
  needs "net/http"

  def build_report
    url = "http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q=&rows=3&fl=bundle&wt=json"
    r = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
    parsed = JSON.parse(r.body)
    report(:results=>parsed["response"]["numFound"])
  end

end
```