You'll need to restart Sphinx whenever you change the structure of your indices 
(or add a new index) - have you done that as well as re-index?

-- 
Pat

On 11/08/2011, at 11:17 PM, mikeee wrote:

> One more quick question.
> 
> The first index_weights approach worked reasonably well but now I'm
> attempting to use your second suggestion and am getting the following:
> 
> index country_core: sort-by attribute 'class_sort' not found
> 
> I modified my model to look like this and deleted my old indexes and
> ran "rake ts:index" again to make sure i had a clean start:
> 
>  define_index do
>   indexes [:name, iso_alpha_2], :as => :country
>   indexes capital
>   has '4', :as => :class_sort, :type => :integer
>  end
> 
> My search query is like:
> @search_results = ThinkingSphinx.search query, :page =>
> params[:page], :per_page => 30, :order => :class_sort
> 
> I also tried the other variation of ordering on class_sort as well and
> had the same error.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong there?
> On Aug 11, 7:52 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No worries :)
>> 
>> --
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 11/08/2011, at 9:59 PM, mikeee wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks Pat - this is perfect.
>> 
>>> Thanks also for maintaining TS - it's fantastic.
>> 
>>> Mike
>> 
>>> On Aug 11, 2:17 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Mike
>> 
>>>> There's a couple of options - firstly, you can weight certain indices to 
>>>> have higher priorities in your search call:
>> 
>>>>   :index_weights => {Continent => 4, Country => 3, StateProvince => 2, 
>>>> Place => 1}
>> 
>>>> That won't ensure your order, though - if a country is a far better match 
>>>> than a low continent, then it'll probably end up above it. Could play with 
>>>> those numbers (any indices/classes not mentioned get a weight of 1), they 
>>>> don't need to be sequential, could be anything.
>> 
>>>> A more reliable option, if the ordering is critical, is give each model a 
>>>> manual attribute like so - changing the number each time to ensure your 
>>>> sort order:
>> 
>>>>   has '1', :as => :class_sort, :type => :integer
>> 
>>>> And then use :order => :class_sort - or, better: "class_sort ASC, 
>>>> @relevance DESC"
>> 
>>>> Cheers
>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Pat
>> 
>>>> On 11/08/2011, at 1:14 PM, mikeee wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Hi -
>> 
>>>>> I have a few models I'm indexing: Continent, Country, StateProvince
>>>>> and Place
>> 
>>>>> I'd like if possible to have the ranking/weight of these to be in the
>>>>> order I've listed above in the search results.   Is there any way to
>>>>> do this?
>> 
>>>>> I've tried using the :classes attribute but that doesn't seem to
>>>>> affect the ranking.
>> 
>>>>> Thanks for any advice.
>> 
>>>>> Mike
>> 
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