Thanks Pat. 
So I'm assuming that besides Riddle, I might have to load all my xml files 
into an SQL dB, update weekly and use the dB with thinking-sphinx.


On Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:00:49 AM UTC-4, Pat Allan wrote:
>
> Hi Sam
>
> Thinking Sphinx is built only to work with ActiveRecord models built on 
> top of SQL databases, I'm afraid, so you can't pull in XML sources.
>
> You could investigate using Riddle directly with XML sources and see if 
> that'll lead to a solution that suits - it's a bit beyond the scope of code 
> snippets though.
>
> Cheers
>
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> On 19/06/2012, at 11:17 PM, Sam Ulu wrote:
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> > Using thinking-sphinx with Rails3, how do I get to set the data source 
> with xmlpipe2 to directly access a collection of xml files, for indexing? 
> For instance, I have a model "Paper" that I need to index its table columns 
> (think fields - paper_title, author, paper_abstact & attributes - paper_no) 
> from a collection of XML files supplied weekly. Please I am a newbie, so 
> any sample code snippets in answers will be highly appreciated...Thanks.
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