Hey :) Yup, I remembered who you are - and it's shame there's not a RailsConf EU this year.
If Rails thinks the database is MySQL, then Thinking Sphinx should as well, so maybe that is a valid option. Would be pretty cool if that works out. Let us know -- Pat On 26/05/2009, at 3:03 AM, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: > > Hi Pat, > > Thank you for your replies. I've continued my investigation and found > that SQL Relay might be an option as well: they build a mysql > compatibility layer, so you can talk to DB2 using the MySQL dialect > and binary protocol. It's a pretty cool project, but I expect lots of > wailing and gnashing of teeth to actually get all that working. So I'm > checking out Xapian at the moment, which seems to be a little-known > but valid alternative. > > Btw, we sat at the same table during the community code drive at > RailsConf Europe last year. > > - Johannes > > On May 25, 7:18 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Again, unfortunately this is something Thinking Sphinx doesn't >> support. I'd love to add XML sources eventually, but it's not been a >> popular request thus far (indeed, you may be the first to request it, >> although others want CouchDB support, and that'd need to be piped in >> via XML as well). >> >> If you really need XML support, you might have to roll your own >> solution using Riddle. >> >> -- >> Pat >> >> On 25/05/2009, at 8:14 AM, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> I have another question: Sphinx can only pull data directly from >>> either MySql or Postgres. It can, however, also call a script that >>> supplies the indexer with XML. Is it possible to supply the Sphinx >>> indexer with XML and still use Thinking Sphinx in my Rails app? >>> Read: >>> can I just use Thinking Sphinx to actually perform the search and >>> use >>> my custom xml-generating script to feed Sphinx's index? >> >>> - Johannes >> >>> -- >>> http://springenwerk.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
