Thinking in Sphinx

Thinking in Sphinx is a ruby interface for Sphinxsearch engine.


install sphinxsearch

  sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

install thinking sphinx

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhuggins/cmusphinx
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

add required gems

  gem 'mysql2'
  gem 'thinking-sphinx'

install

  bundle install

create a file under app/indices/ called _index.rb
add the following

ThinkingSphinx::Index.define :article, :with => :active_record do
  # fields
  indexes title, :sortable => true
  indexes content
  # attributes
  has created_at, updated_at
end

After that you can test your searches in rails console

example search

  Article.search params[:search]

 @articles = Article.search Riddle::Query.escape(params[:search])



Links:

http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/

http://blog.app2technologies.com/basic-thinking-sphinx-setup-in-rails-3.1-or-newer-on-ubuntu-12.04/