Update 2008-04-17
Pat’s integrated my changes and also removed the horrible double Rake task hack I did. Now the Rake task works automatically. I’ve removed my branch and now I mirror Pat’s master branch. Please use Pat’s branch instead as his one will always be the most up to date.
It started off this morning before breakfast when I wanted to get Pat’s excellent Thinking Sphinx plugin going in Merb. The next thing I know, it was all done with enough time to spare for some tea. However my first attempt I made was too tightly coupled with Merb when it didn’t need to be. So tonight I cleaned it up and now it’s flexible enough to be used on both Merb and Rails apps.
My experiment can be found here but I warn you to tread with care as it’s still work in progress. However it works quite well for me as we use both Rails and Merb at work. The gem is based on Thinking Sphinx trunk so please read that first if you have any problems.
To get going:
git clone git://github.com/jaikoo/thinking-sphinx.git
cd thinking-sphinx
rake package
sudo gem install pkg/thinking-sphinx.0.8.0.gem
In your Merb app add the following:
init.rb:
dependency 'thinking_sphinx'
Rakefile
require 'thinking_sphinx/tasks/merb
For your Rails app:
Create an file called search.rb in your iniitializers dir and insert:
require 'thinking_sphinx'
Add a file called thinking_sphinx.rake in lib/tasks and add:
require 'thinking_sphinx/tasks/rails
Then do the usual Thinking Sphinx setup such as adding the index info to your models, rake thinking_sphinx:configure, rake ts:index etc…
Thanks again to Pat Allan for creating such a well designed and abstracted Sphinx plugin.
Future? I’m eyeing up adding DataMapper support which I’m quite excited about… Hopefully I’ll get sometime in the next few days to work on this.
Update Pat announced the release of his re-write of the Thinking Sphinx plugin. Check it out here !
