Hi Farmer

On 16/12/2008, at 7:06 PM, farmer wrote:

> Yesterday I installed thinking sphinx and tried to use it in a rails
> app, using MySQL, on a windows machine. The index creation worked
> okay, other than it not finding one field - a date field - should it
> not find this type? The main fields it indexed were blobs - is that
> okay, or do they have to be text?

Blobs are fine, as far as I can tell. Sphinx treats it all as text -  
so if you want the date field treated as a date, it needs to be an  
attribute instead of a field.

> One other thing is that when I ran "script/plugin install ..." to get
> thinking sphinx (from github), it failed to install correctly, and
> just made an empty directory vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx. So I just
> copied the code from .../master on github. Running "script/plugin
> install ..." on another plugin installed correctly.

Hmm, can you copy and paste the url you're using for thinking sphinx?  
I'll give it a try on my machine.

Cheers

-- 
Pat

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