Comments on: Searching a Ruby on Rails application with Sphinx and Ultrasphinx

By: Filters for fridges

Filters for fridges — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:16:40 +0000

That was a really good article, thanks for taking the time to put it together! I’ve been using Sphinx in Rails for a while now and I haven’t been more satisfied.

By: Rama McIntosh

Rama McIntosh — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:52:18 +0000

It is easy to run development/test/production simultaneously. Replace default.base with three .base configuration files (production.base, development.base, and test.base). Then in each base configuration change the path and searchd port. Now when you configure and start a server, it will generate different .conf files for each environment that can be run simultaneously.

The configurations are not as dry now….but you gotta develop and test on the same box!

By: JR

JR — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:03:31 +0000

i’m having the same problem re: partials and i can’t figure it out either. so far, my searches are only working with exact searches.

By: Hire developer

Hire developer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:41:03 +0000

I have tried to install sphinx many time but it didn’t work but now i think i can install it from the help of your post thanks.

By: pjammer

pjammer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:14:26 +0000

great post. Quick question, but does anyone who uses ultrasphinx have problems with partial names not showing? For instance, if i search for CORN, i’ll get nothing, but if i search for CORNHUSKERS my results appear?

I want to be able for a user to just type corn and they get all available permutations of the word corn.

i tried setting enable_star = 1 and min_prefix_len = 4 in the default.base file. I then ran rake ultrasphinx:configure again. reloaded the index and restarted teh daemon, but i still don’t get that functionality?

can anyone confirm that i am doing it wrong, i hope so! anyone have a solution?

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Mindtonic » Ultrasphinx MySql Location Error — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:44:14 +0000

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By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:08:57 +0000

Can you help me? I use ultrasphix too. And i don`t want use pagination for search results. But defoult value of per_page is 20. Has ultrasphinx additional parametr for show all results?

By: Michael Hartl

Michael Hartl — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:11:13 +0000

At the time I wrote the post, Ultrasphinx was both active and practically the default choice for Sphinx in Rails. The Rails world moves (absurdly) fast, though, and since then things have shifted in the direction of Thinking Sphinx. We just haven’t yet felt enough pain with our current solution to justify making a switch.

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:36:24 +0000

Evan’s original code has piece like if ENV['USER'] == ‘eweaver’… It also has some obvious bugs like having ‘//’ in the index file paths instead of putting them let’s say in a ‘data’ subfolder. It doesn’t seem to be an active project. GitHub forking is nice, but can you rely on a fork that’s not widely adopted and tested?