Starting and stopping Solr
Solr listens to different ports for different environments.
Start Solr (and hide useless output)
rake solr:start PORT=8981 &>/dev/null
rake solr:start PORT=8982 &>/dev/null
Stop Solr
rake solr:stop PORT=8981
rake solr:stop PORT=8982
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