puts <<-MESSAGE With the release of Thinking Sphinx 1.1.18, there is one important change to note: previously, the default morphology for indexing was 'stem_en'. The new default is nothing, to avoid any unexpected behavior. If you wish to keep the old value though, you will need to add the following settings to your config/sphinx.yml file: development: morphology: stem_en test: morphology: stem_en production: morphology: stem_en To understand morphologies/stemmers better, visit the following link: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.8.html#conf-morphology MESSAGE