Straightforward method to get related items view from Solr I have a Drupal 6 site with an Apache Solr search index.
I'm trying to create a block that displays 'related content', much like Stack Exchange sites have 'related' in the sidebar of questions.
The modules Apachesolr_views seems like a good candidate, but it's current development status and issue queue is less than inviting.
Does anyone have suggestions of a straightforward way to implement this?
The feature is actually built in to apachesolr.module. It is called 'mlt' (short for More Like This).

You can add differently configured MLT blocks via ?q=admin/settings/apachesolr/mlt/add_block and then configure their visibility in ?q=admin/build/block or whatever block visibility mechanism you are using (context etc).