Setting up Sphinx in a Ruby on Rails application

Sep 17, 2014

Thinking Sphinx — http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/

Installing Sphinx - http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/installing_sphinx.html

Installing on MacOS X - http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/installing_sphinx/mac.html

Using Homebrew: brew install sphinx

Add ‘thinking-sphinx’ to Gemfile - https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx

gem ‘thinking-sphinx’, ‘~> 3.1.1'
bundle install

Quick Start Quide — http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/quickstart.html

rake ts:index ==> index data
rake ts:start ==> Run Sphinx
rake ts:rebuild ==> rebuild indexes