sunspot/sunspot — Issue #110: Sunspot should provide a more useful error message when Solr isn't available
Author: nz
Created: 2011-10-18 23:37:05+00:00
State: open

Consider:

```
$ rake sunspot:reindex
rake aborted!
Connection refused - connect(2)
```

Why not…?

```
$ rake sunspot:reindex

!!! Could not connect to Solr at http://localhost:8983/solr

rake aborted!
Connection refused - connect(2)
```