I don't think Sphinx will allow you to index/search things that are not in
tables.

2009/7/6 Maxus <[email protected]>

>
> Hi People,
>
> I'm having trouble working out how to use thinking sphinx in my
> current scernario, wondered if someone could set me on the right path.
>
> I have a couple thousand PDFs I would like to index each pdf has a
> entry in the DB with the file path but the PDFs content is not stored
> in the DB (as it can be up to a couple meg per PDF) which is the data
> that needs to be indexed, does thinking sphinx support this setup? I
> was thinking I would inport the PDF data and combine it with the DB
> data then send it to sphinx using XML pipe 2 or is there a better way?
> Or do I need to just find a rails plugin that will let me query sphinx
> directly rather than going through a model?
>
> Thanks!
> Maxus
>
> >
>


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