Hi Pat, I updated my version of ruby and followed your advice and it's all working now :)
Thanks for your help, Colin On Mar 4, 11:37 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, the joys of open source docs - someone's covered that :) > > That will ensure that Sphinx will be running - but there's nothing there that > actually indexes the data, so you'll still need to run cap > thinking_sphinx:index > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 05/03/2010, at 10:22 AM, Colin wrote: > > > > > Hi Pat, > > > Thanks for the reply. I've decided to upgrade my ruby to try and get > > rid of the Virtual Timer Expired bug and another issue. > > > According to the guide on the Thinking Sphinx site: > >http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/deployment.html > > > Including: > > > task :before_update_code, :roles => [:app] do > > thinking_sphinx.stop > > end > > > task :after_update_code, :roles => [:app] do > > symlink_sphinx_indexes > > thinking_sphinx.configure > > thinking_sphinx.start > > end > > > task :symlink_sphinx_indexes, :roles => [:app] do > > run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/db/sphinx #{current_path}/db/sphinx" > > end > > > Will mean that Sphinx will get indexed and started on each deploy? > > (Obviously I will want to reindex more often and will look into that > > later) > > > Regards, > > > Colin > > > On Mar 4, 10:13 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Colin > > >> The output seems fine, beyond the Virtual timer line and the 0 tests line > >> - I'm guessing they're from the same source. > > >> One thing I should have been more clear about in earlier emails is that > >> cap deploy will not start or index Sphinx - you need to run tasks for that > >> yourself (much like migrations aren't part of a default deploy). > > >> cap thinking_sphinx:index > >> cap thinking_sphinx:start > > >> And then, whenever you want to index the data, just run the index task. If > >> you've made changes to your index setup in a recent deploy, you'll want to > >> run the rebuild task, which stops Sphinx, reindexes with the new > >> configuration, and restarts. > > >> Sorry, should have explained this at the start. > > >> -- > >> Pat > > >> On 05/03/2010, at 4:47 AM, Colin wrote: > > >>> I broke up the script into the if statement and the rake command and > >>> the if statement seems to run ok but the rake command produces: > > >>> rails/current$ rake RAILS_ENV=production thinking_sphinx:configure > >>> (in /pathTo/releases/20100303200303) > >>> Generating Configuration to /pathTo/releases/20100303200303/config/ > >>> production.sphinx.conf > >>> Loaded suite /usr/local/bin/rake > >>> Started > > >>> Finished in 0.000146 seconds. > > >>> 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors > >>> Virtual timer expired > > >>> So it looks like it completes fine except for that last "Virtual Timer > >>> Expired" line. > >>> I've googled that and it crops up in a few places but seems to be > >>> related to how ruby uses threads. I'm on ruby 1.8.6 by the way. > > >>> On Mar 4, 1:40 pm, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hi Pat, > > >>>> I created the tmp folder and re-ran cap deploy; the output is the > >>>> same. > > >>>> However if I manually run the failing script on the server I get: > > >>>> (in /pathTo/releases/20100303200303) > >>>> Generating Configuration to /pathTo/releases/20100303200303/config/ > >>>> production.sphinx.conf > >>>> Loaded suite /usr/local/bin/rake > >>>> Started > >>>> Finished in 0.000146 seconds. > >>>> 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors > >>>> Virtual timer expired > > >>>> On Mar 4, 5:31 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> The shared folder should definitely *not* be in current - current is a > >>>>> symbolic link to the latest release, and we want a static path for > >>>>> Sphinx to point to. > > >>>>> If your tmp dir doesn't exist, try creating that - hopefully that'll do > >>>>> the job. > > >>>>> Let us know if there's still some problems. > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Pat > > >>>>> On 04/03/2010, at 3:45 AM, Colin wrote: > > >>>>>> Just to add to the above; > > >>>>>> In the shared folder, the db folder exists with the sphinx folder > >>>>>> inside but there is no tmp folder in the shared folder so I presume > >>>>>> it's the pid path that is the problem. > > >>>>>> On Mar 3, 3:25 pm, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> Hi Pat, > > >>>>>>> I ran that command and it created the folders in my rails folder. (so > >>>>>>> it looks like: /pathTo/rails/shared/) > >>>>>>> But my app is deployed to /pathTo/rails/current/. > >>>>>>> Is that where it is supposed to create the shared folder? Or should it > >>>>>>> be inside the current folder? > > >>>>>>> I updated my sphinx.yaml to reflect where the shared folder is now > >>>>>>> (http://pastie.org/851754) but when I run ts:version I > >>>>>>> get:http://pastie.org/851760 > > >>>>>>> So it does the command but complains about a path not being correct. > > >>>>>>> On Mar 3, 10:05 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>>>>> Hi Colin > > >>>>>>>> The usual process for using capistrano for the first time is to run > >>>>>>>> these two tasks: > > >>>>>>>> cap deploy:setup > >>>>>>>> cap deploy:cold > > >>>>>>>> Then, for further deploys just use the normal task: > > >>>>>>>> cap deploy > > >>>>>>>> So, that shared folder won't be created at any other point if you've > >>>>>>>> not run deploy:setup. However, you don't need to start from scratch, > >>>>>>>> just run the task that line refers to instead: > > >>>>>>>> cap thinking_sphinx:shared_sphinx_folder > > >>>>>>>> Hopefully that should help things along. > > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> Pat > > >>>>>>>> On 03/03/2010, at 7:01 AM, Colin wrote: > > >>>>>>>>> Hi, > > >>>>>>>>> I've just gotten my first rails app deployed and I'm trying to get > >>>>>>>>> TS > >>>>>>>>> working in the production environment. > >>>>>>>>> I'm following two > >>>>>>>>> guides:http://www.updrift.com/article/thinkingsphinx-capistrano-tasks > >>>>>>>>> andhttp://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/deployment.html > > >>>>>>>>> I'm using the TS gem. > >>>>>>>>> My deploy.rb looks like this:http://pastie.org/850411andmy > >>>>>>>>> sphinx.yaml looks like this:http://pastie.org/850413 > > >>>>>>>>> At the moment when I cap deploy, no shared folder is created, which > >>>>>>>>> I > >>>>>>>>> presume is what the last line of the deploy.rb is supposed to do. > >>>>>>>>> And > >>>>>>>>> as a result the paths in the sphinx.yaml obviously can't be > >>>>>>>>> followed. > > >>>>>>>>> Can anyone suggest what is wrong, or if I've missed a step? > > >>>>>>>>> Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx are both installed on the server. > > >>>>>>>>> Regards, > > >>>>>>>>> Colin > > >>>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>>> 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 > >>>>>>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> 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 > >>>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > > >>> -- > >>> 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 > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. 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