Use the 1.4.x releases of the gem, not 2.x (that's for Rails 3+). Also, 
installing as a gem rather than the plugin is the recommended approach.

-- 
Pat

On 21/09/2011, at 12:03 PM, internetchris wrote:

> hmm, it didn't help. I will uninstall the plugin and try the gem. Is
> there an issue using the latest gem with rails 2.3.5?
> 
> On Sep 20, 6:43 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's like the indexes method just isn't being called. What happens if you 
>> change it to:
>>   self.indexes :subject
>> 
>> The source will be defined on the fly - so, once a field or attribute is 
>> added.
>> 
>> --
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 21/09/2011, at 9:16 AM, internetchris wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Ok, a little more research. I placed a "puts" in the ThinkingSphinx
>>> \builder.rb no_fields? method...
>> 
>>> def no_fields?
>>>        puts @index.inspect
>>>        @index.sources.empty? || @index.sources.any? { |source|
>>>          source.fields.length == 0
>>>        }
>>>      end
>> 
>>> This is where the error is coming from, so here's the output of my
>>> puts statement...
>> 
>>> #<ThinkingSphinx::Index:0x10571d850 @name="chat", @delta_object=nil,
>>> @options={}, @sources=[], @model=Chat(id: integer, subject: string,
>>> social_profile_id: integer, created_at: datetime, updated_at:
>>> datetime, category: string, profile_key: string)>
>> 
>>> You can see the @model(subject:string) field exists, but the @sources
>>> is empty. What is the @sources for and what can I do differently to
>>> populate this info?
>> 
>>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> Chris
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 5:07 pm, internetchris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Just an FYI...
>> 
>>>> I created a config/sphinx.yml file and put the following in it..
>> 
>>>> development:
>>>>   indexed_models:
>>>>     - Chat
>> 
>>>> This didn't seem to help. I'm sure it's something simple, but I can't
>>>> seem to put my finger on it. According to another post I read it
>>>> mentioned a similar error when placing the "define_index" prior to the
>>>> has_many/belongs_to statements. In my case, I have it listed after the
>>>> relationships are defined so that shouldn't be a problem.
>> 
>>>> Chris
>> 
>>>> On Sep 20, 4:59 pm, internetchris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Hi Pat,
>> 
>>>>> I tried that with the same result. I did a search on "define_index" in
>>>>> my app with the thought maybe it was used by a plugin or something but
>>>>> the only thing I found was my model definition and the TS stuff in the
>>>>> plugins directory. I noticed some posts on a "config/sphinx.yml"
>>>>> file....which I don't have. If I wanted to define my model in this
>>>>> file, what would the appropriate syntax be. I saw a post by someone
>>>>> that did this with their staging environment and it fixed the
>>>>> problem.
>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>> 
>>>>> Chris
>> 
>>>>> On Sep 20, 4:41 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Hi Chris
>> 
>>>>>> This shouldn't be any different, but can you try subject as a symbol 
>>>>>> instead:
>> 
>>>>>>   define_index do
>>>>>>     indexes :subject
>>>>>>   end
>> 
>>>>>> Just in case some other library's inserting a subject method into the 
>>>>>> global scope.
>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Pat
>> 
>>>>>> On 21/09/2011, at 4:42 AM, internetchris wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Group,
>> 
>>>>>>> I'm trying to implement TS in my Rails 2.3.5 app. I watched the
>>>>>>> screencast and hoped it would be pretty straight forward. I have a
>>>>>>> "Chat" model and in the model I defined a single index..
>> 
>>>>>>> define_index do
>>>>>>>      indexes subject
>>>>>>>   end
>> 
>>>>>>> when I run rake ts:index I get the following error.
>> 
>>>>>>> Generating Configuration to /Users/Chris/rails/myapp/config/
>>>>>>> development.sphinx.conf
>>>>>>> rake aborted!
>>>>>>> At least one field is necessary for an index
>> 
>>>>>>> I even tried passing the rails environment to the rake task but
>>>>>>> without luck. This field indeed exists in my DB. For the heck of it I
>>>>>>> also tried it on another model using the "first_name" field of my User
>>>>>>> model and go the same error.
>> 
>>>>>>> Environment:
>> 
>>>>>>> Rails 2.3.5
>>>>>>> Thinking Sphinx v1.4.7
>>>>>>> Mysql db
>> 
>>>>>>> Any suggestions would be happily appreciated.
>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>> 
>>>>>>> Chris
>> 
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