May not be a reproducible error, but doesn't hurt to add a scenario to cover this. See this thread on the group.

I used the patched version of after_commit plugin and they crash when I try load the thinking-sphinx gem.
So, сan be to list plug-ins which it is not necessary to load in the THINKING_SPHINX_DISABLED_PLUGIN constant ?

Rails 2.3.2

I've confirmed on my EngineYard slice and my local dev box (OS X).

Without config.threadsafe!, everything works just fine. http://gist.github.com/114935

With config.threadsafe!, rake ts:config doesn't output any sources or indexes into *.sphinx.conf. Note that I do get indexer and searchd. http://gist.github.com/114936

It drops out with:
`require': no such file to load -- action_controller/dispatcher (MissingSourceFile)

The problem appears in init.rb where you require it.

Is there a way to reuse the same scope for search and for
facet search?

Here is example what I mean (from online tutorial)..
scope = Article.latest_first.by_name('Puck')
articles = scope.search
facets = scope.facets

I have some items that are updated periodically and I use the :with functionality to only show results from updated items. However, the behavior has been unpredictable and not working.

At times it returns no results when it should. Other times it returns results when it shouldn't.

define_index do
  indexes title, :sortable => :true
  indexes description
  indexes retailer(:name), :as => :retailer_name

  # attributes that are not strings
  has retailer_id, created_at, updated_at

  set_property :delta => true
end

and

Item.search 'search terms', :match_mode => :all, :field_weights => { :title => 20, :description => 5 }, :with => { :updated_at => 1.day.ago..Time.now }

I am getting an undefined method error for sphinx_scope
I am using ruby enterprise version 1.8.6-20090421

this is what is in my environment.rb

config.gem( 'freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx', :lib => 'thinking_sphinx', :version => '1.2.9', :source => 'http://gems.github.com' )

config.gem 'mislav-will_paginate', :version => '~> 2.3.11', :lib => 'will_paginate',

:source => 'http://gems.github.com'

here's my gem list actionmailer (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
actionpack (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
activerecord (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
activeresource (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
activesupport (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
capistrano (2.5.8)
cassandra (0.5.6.2)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.0.10)
fastthread (1.0.7)
freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx (1.2.9)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
haml (2.2.3)
highline (1.5.1)
hpricot (0.8.1)
htmldoc (0.2.1)
httpclient (2.1.5.2)
image_science (1.2.1)
json (1.1.9)
memcached (0.16.3)
mislav-will_paginate (2.3.11)
mms2r (2.3.0)
mongrel (1.1.5)
mysql (2.7)
net-scp (1.0.2)
net-sftp (2.0.2)
net-ssh (2.0.15)
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.1)
passenger (2.2.5, 2.2.1)
postgres (0.7.9.2008.01.28)
rack (1.0.0, 0.9.1)
rails (2.3.3, 2.3.2)
rake (0.8.4)
RubyInline (3.8.3)
soap4r (1.5.8)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4)
thrift (0.0.810255.1)
tmail (1.2.3.1)

ZenTest (4.1.4)

and here's the stack trace

=> Booting Mongrel => Rails 2.3.3 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000 /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1959:in method_missing_without_paginate': undefined methodsphinx_scope' for #<Class:0x3913590> (NoMethodError)

from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mislav-will_paginate-2.3.11/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:168:in `method_missing'
from /media/disk/var/www/xoonoo.com/current/app/models/user.rb:98
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:380:in `load_without_new_constant_marking'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:380:in `load_file'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:379:in `load_file'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:259:in `require_or_load'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:425:in `load_missing_constant'
 ... 35 levels...
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.3/lib/commands/server.rb:84
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from script/server:3

I had this working before but I have just moved to a new workstation and I am trying to setup my environment and now I get this error. Any ideas ?

Calling Model.facets results in SQL database queries even though it returns a hash of facets. Thinking Sphinx should be able to return the facets as stored in the Sphinx database.

Xapit has a very convenient solution for facet url creation, which allows you to get your faceting up and running extremely fast (it just works):

From http://github.com/ryanb/xapit

BEGIN QUOTE
Facets allow you to further filter the result set based on certain attributes.

  <% for facet in @articles.facets %>
    <%= facet.name %>
    <% for option in facet.options %>
      <%= link_to option.name, :overwrite_params => { :facets => option } %>
      (<%= option.count %>)
    <% end %>
  <% end %>

The to_param method is defined on option to return an identifier which will be passed through the URL. Use this in the search.

  Article.search("phone", :facets => params[:facets])

You can also list the applied facets along with a remove link.

  <% for option in @articles.applied_facet_options %>
    <%=h option.name %>
    <%= link_to "remove", :overwrite_params => { :facets => option } %>
  <% end %>

END QUOTE

Their to_param implementation allows it to work for both adding the facet if it doesn't exist, and if it does exist, then depending on breadcrumb_facets? will either remove just that facet, or remove all back to a given facet (breadcrumb_facets? == true):
http://github.com/ryanb/xapit/blob/master/lib/xapit/facet_option.rb

One downside to this implementation is that it doesn't allow you to have breadcrumb navigation links and a remove facet link.

Shop > Shoes (X) > Blue[breadcrumb mode] (X)[remove mode]

It would be nice to be able to configure this "on the fly":

  <% for option in @articles.applied_facet_options %>
    <%= link_to option.name, :overwrite_params => { :facets => option } %>
    <%= link_to "remove", :overwrite_params => { :facets => option.remove } %>
  <% end %>

Having the facet params encoded as a single param enables the breadcrumbs to be displayed in the order the user selects them. This means you don't have to use cookies, etc. to track this ordering. It also means that the controller code is very simple and just has to pass a single param into the Model.search options.

What do you think? :D

This is needed when you want to define an attribute using a SQL fragment that references a column in another table. Current work around is to define an attribute on a column in the other table using the association in your model, but this isn't a very elegant solution, especially when you don't want the additional attribute.

An example of a real-world need for this can be found in this post from the google group.

If you are indexing an ActiveRecord model field but none of those models in the database have a value for that field (they can be nil or an empty string) then starting the sphinx daemon results in these warnings (for a question model, in this case):

WARNING: index 'question_core': preload: failed to load /path/to/project/db/sphinx/development/question_core.spa: bad size 0 (at least 20 bytes expected); NOT SERVING
WARNING: index 'question': no such local index 'question_core' - SKIPPING LOCAL INDEX
WARNING: index 'question': no valid local/remote indexes in distributed index - NOT SERVING

The sphinx daemon continues to start and you can search that model without any problems (Question.search #=> []). However, the ThinkingSphinx::Search object that you get back will raise an exception when you call the total_pages method.

I've created a failing test, and simple/naive fix (in this diff[1]), but when I git cloned the project just now I get other errors (output here[2]) which is why I've just displayed the diff rather than committing back in the normal way.

[1] http://pastie.org/663261 [2] http://pastie.org/663260

The one in particular I as trying to use was index_exact_words, but there are probably others, so some kind of audit/reconciliation needs to be performed

if a model class has a parent class that is abstract (self.abstract_class = true) ts sees the class as full model class and tries to join with non-existent table in generated sql.

This is a re-post of a previous issue. I just now realized that the previous fix successfully removed the error, but still doesn't seem to return correct results when scoped.

# Model code...
class Publication < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :issues
  has_many :articles, :through => :issues
end

class Issue < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :publication
  has_many :articles
end

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :issue
  define_index do
    has issue(:publication_id), :as => :publication_id
  end
  sphinx_scope(:web_content) {
    {
      :order => 'release_date DESC',
      :without => {:release => 0} # sphinx stores null as 0
    }
  }
end

What I've observed is the following:

publication = Publication.find(1)
publication.articles.search 'foobar' # returns only results in publication - correct behavior
publication.articles.web_content # returns web content articles from both publications - incorrect behavior
Article.web_content.search :with => {:publication_id => 1} # returns web content articles from publication 1 - correct behavior, and a functional workaround, but no fun

Site.find(1).jobs.search_count('test) != Site.find(1).jobs.search('test').size
but
Site.find(1).jobs.search_count('test) = Job.search('test').size