I'm not sure which fork is better - but both are several months old. Still, 
it's worth giving both a spin.

Maybe start with Edgars', as he has at least a little documentation? I think 
for Claus', you'll need to look through for his commits.

-- 
Pat

On 21/12/2010, at 12:18 AM, Gustavo de Sá Carvalho Honorato wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Gustavo
>> 
>> Sphinx itself does not support Oracle, so Thinking Sphinx doesn't. Sphinx 
>> 0.9.9 and (I assume) 1.10 supports ODBC as a work-around - and there may be 
>> a fork of TS somewhere that does support ODBC, but the main release does 
>> not. To be honest, not entirely sure that would be possible (partial 
>> support, yes, but all features, unlikely).
> 
> I've found this two forks which is said to support Oracle. Which one
> you recommend me?
> 
> https://github.com/cjk/thinking-sphinx
> https://github.com/ebeigarts/ts-xml
> 
>> 
>> So the short answer is: you can't use Thinking Sphinx and Oracle together.
>> 
>> I'm kinda happy to accept patches for ODBC/Oracle, except I don't have 
>> Oracle, so I can't test against it (and given it's commercial, not rushing 
>> to purchase a copy for just that purpose).
> 
> Oracle has a free version called Oracle Express Edition. Anyone can
> download this version from their website at no charge. I'd like to
> contribute to TS but I suspect that I didn't have the necessary
> experience with RoR to do that right know.
> 
>> 
>> --
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 17/12/2010, at 11:24 PM, Gustavo de Sá Carvalho Honorato wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> how can I get Thinking Sphinx working with Oracle? Any special 
>>> configuration is required?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gustavo
>>> 
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