Search two entities from the same search bar using Solr

[shivendr...@gmail.com]

I am wondering if there is a way to search two entities say a user and a product from the same search field. Much like google+ n facebook where you can search for something and the result you get is from users, pages, businesses etc.

As far as my use case goes, I want other users to be able to search other users and look at all the reviews those particular users have written, all in one place.

One approach I considered was to make a search controller and route the search requests from there sequentially first to products and then to users. Count the no. of results in both ( or sort by relevance or some other parameter) and display the result.

[Dave]

Does this help?  

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10488064/searching-multiple-models-simultaneously-in-sunspot-solr-for-rails