The reason is that when I comment out the define_index declarations in the 
models, that part of the code runs fine. Putting it back in, breaks it. 
That lead me to believe it's a thinking-sphinx issue

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 8:02:29 AM UTC-4, complistic wrote:
>
> Hi Ahmed,
>
> What makes you think this is an thinking-sphinx error? I have seen similar 
> errors when upgrading an app from 3.0 to 3.1 without thinking-sphinx.
>
> I think it was to do with calling associations on empty ActiveRecord 
> result sets.
>
> What is the code that creates @person, and whats its current value?
> The error makes me think the value of @person is nil or an Association 
> object (not a Person).
>
> If @person is indeed a Person, Whats the value of @person.current_friends?
>
> I hope I've given you a few new ideas.
>
> David Bennett
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 4 September 2012 01:20:14 UTC+9:30, Daly wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running thinking-sphinx 2.0.10 in a Rails 3.2 app.
>>
>> rvm --version
>> rvm 1.14.12 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin <[email protected]>, Michal 
>> Papis <[email protected]> [https://rvm.io/]
>>
>> ruby --version
>> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2]
>>
>> This used to be a rails 2.3 app that I'm converting. It always breaks at 
>> the exact same location with:
>>
>>     undefined method `association_class' for nil:NilClass
>>
>> The offending line is:
>>     @friends = @person.current_friends.order('RAND()').limit(5)
>>
>> The association is:
>>
>> In person.rb:
>>     has_many :current_friends, :source => :friend, :through => :friends
>>
>> and the sphinx method in person.rb is:
>>     define_index do
>>       indexes :user_name
>>       indexes :id, :as => :id
>>       indexes :email, :as => :email
>>       indexes :account_verified#, :as => :account_verified
>>
>>       set_property :delta => false
>>     end
>>
>>
>> In friend.rb:
>>     belongs_to :person
>>     belongs_to :friend, :class_name => 'Person', :foreign_key => 
>> "friend_id"
>>     validates_presence_of :person_id, :friend_id
>>
>> The closes thing I could find that matches my issue is: 
>> https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx/issues/310, I did put the define 
>> index after all the declarations. I'm sure it's ts because when I comment 
>> out all define_index methods in the code, it works fine.
>>
>> This has been hounding me for a long time now.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Ahmed
>>
>

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