Turns out I was using a plugin version that was a few months old.
Upgrading fixed the issue.

Thanks for your help Pat!

On Feb 25, 2:52 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it's the following line that's causing the problem:
>    indexes manufacturer.name, :as => :manufacturer_name
>
> Try:
>    indexes manufacturer(:name), :as => :manufacturer_name
>
> Everything else seems to be right.
>
> Cheers
>
> --  
> Pat
>
> On 25/02/2009, at 5:11 PM, Josh Owens wrote:
>
>
>
> > Pat,
>
> > Thanks for the response, but I can't seem to get the code working.
>
> > My index block looks like this:
>
> >  define_index do
> >    indexes part_number
> >    indexes "REPLACE(REPLACE(part_number, '/', ''), '-', '')", :as
> > => :part_number_alphanumeric
> >    indexes description, keywords
> >    indexes manufacturer.name, :as => :manufacturer_name
> >    indexes categories(:name), :as => :category_names
> >    has categories(:id), :as => :category_ids
> >    set_property :field_weights => {"part_number" => 100,
> > "description" => 50, "keywords" => 10}
> >    set_property :enable_star => true
> >    set_property :min_prefix_len => 3
> >    where "searchable = 1"
> >  end
>
> > And I get this error when I try to rake ts:config:
>
> > rake aborted!
> > Cannot define a field with no columns. Maybe you are trying to index a
> > field with a reserved name (id, name). You can fix this error by using
> > a symbol rather than a bare name (:id instead of id).
>
> > On Feb 24, 12:46 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Josh
>
> >> There's a few approaches I can think of. First up is ignore_chars,
> >> which could be used to strip out slashes and 
> >> dashes.http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#conf-ignore-chars
>
> >> However, a better approach might be to have three fields, all built
> >> off the same column (assuming MySQL, change as needed):
>
> >>    indexes part_number
> >>    indexes "REPLACE(part_number, '/', '')", :as  
> >> => :part_number_no_slash
> >>    indexes "REPLACE(REPLACE(part_number, '/', ''), '-', '')", :as
> >> => :part_number_alphanumeric
>
> >> It's not the neatest looking approach, but it would keep your query
> >> super-simple... well, provided you're not looking at focusing the
> >> search on a specific field. If that's the case, I'd probably wrap all
> >> three of the above options into a single field via raw SQL.
>
> >> Hope this helps.
>
> >> Cheers
>
> >> --
> >> Pat
>
> >> On 24/02/2009, at 4:38 PM, Josh Owens wrote:
>
> >>> Hey,
>
> >>> I am trying to use Thinking Sphinx to match cisco part numbers,  
> >>> but I
> >>> need to match a couple variations of the part number.
>
> >>> For example: I have a part number: WS-C19/28EEUG.  I need to match  
> >>> the
> >>> exact part number, but also WSC1928EEUG, and WSC-1928EEUG.  Is  
> >>> there a
> >>> way to strip out non-alphanumeric characters for matching, or  
> >>> would I
> >>> need to do it by hand in the search query and with an extra db field
> >>> that gets indexed?
>
> >>> Thanks for the help.
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