Hi Pat, Thanks for clarifying. I'm having a look at writing the define_index block, but the database is legacy, and has has_and_belongs_to_many associations where keys don't follow Rails conventions.
I'll post two problems i've already encountered in another thread. Thanks for the info, Maxime On 27 May 2010, at 15:54, Pat Allan wrote: > Hi Maxime > > I don't think this is possible, because there are certain attributes Thinking > Sphinx automatically adds to each index, and that it expects when querying. > I'm afraid you'll need to rewrite the index definitions in define_index > blocks in your models. > > It's easy enough to index data via TS using a modified conf file (rake > ts:reindex) - but it's the searching that won't work out, I'm afraid. > > An alternative is to just use Riddle, which is a link between Ruby and Sphinx > (instead of ActiveRecord and Sphinx), but I think it's far less painful to > convert the indexes to TS' syntax. Still, your mileage may vary. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 9:30 PM, Maxime wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have been asked to integrate Thinking Sphinx to a Rails app which >> uses the same DB as a legacy PHP application. >> There has been a good amount of work done on the Sphinx config file >> during development of the PHP app, and I'm trying to see >> if there's an easy way to avoid redoing all that in index definitions >> in the model (i.e. extracet what's needed from the conf file, or >> bypass declaration in the models altogether). >> >> Is there a way to do that ? >> >> Cheers, >> Maxime >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
