No worries - great to know it's all sorted :)

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Pat

On 06/03/2010, at 9:21 AM, Colin wrote:

> 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
>> 
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