websolr is returning
RSolr::Error::Http - 400 Bad Request
Error: <html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/6.0.28 - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 400 - org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse '----': Encountered " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 1.
Was expecting one of:
"(" ...
"*" ...
<QUOTED> ...
<TERM> ...
<PREFIXTERM> ...
<WILDTERM> ...
"[" ...
"{" ...
<NUMBER> ...
when ever tried to search "-" character.
other special characters works fine like ":" etc i have tried to use CGI.escape but its not making escape to these characters.
Have you tried escaping it with backslash?
Normally when you index your documents, the tokenizer will remove dash characters on their own, so you may want to just strip the dash anyway, unless you mean for it to be a negative query.
The full Solr query syntax is here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax