Hmm.. What do you have in your config/thinking_sphinx.yml? Do you have
enable_star: true and either min_infix_len or min_prefix_len for all
environments?

(And you've noticed that it's now config/thinking_sphinx.yml, not
config/sphinx.yml?)

-Timo

On 6 May 2014 19:36, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but these options don't return any hits either.
>
> 1.9.3-p484 :001 > User.search('walt', :star => true)
>   Sphinx Query (11.3ms)  SELECT * FROM `user_core` WHERE MATCH('*walt*') AND 
> `sphinx_deleted` = 0 LIMIT 0, 20
>   Sphinx  Found 0 results
>  => []
> 1.9.3-p484 :002 > User.search('walt*')
>   Sphinx Query (1.0ms)  SELECT * FROM `user_core` WHERE MATCH('walt*') AND 
> `sphinx_deleted` = 0 LIMIT 0, 20
>   Sphinx  Found 0 results
>  => []
> 1.9.3-p484 :003 > User.search('walter')
>   Sphinx Query (1.0ms)  SELECT * FROM `user_core` WHERE MATCH('walter') AND 
> `sphinx_deleted` = 0 LIMIT 0, 20
>   Sphinx  Found 2 results
>   User Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IN (1, 
> 3)
>
> I'm using Sphinx 2.1.4, and TS 3.1.1.
>
> Could this be one of those things like MySQL full text search, where fewer 
> than half the records can match in order for there to be any results?
>
> Walter
>
> On May 6, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Timo Virkkala wrote:
>
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> You need to search for 'walt*', or provide :star => true.
>>
>> -Timo
>>
>> On 6 May 2014 18:20, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am testing TS3 in a new site (have previously stuck to the older 
>>> versions) and right away, I'm seeing fewer results (well, none, in my 
>>> limited test) where I would expect them to appear. I have indexed my users 
>>> table, and I try searching for myself.
>>>
>>> ThinkingSphinx::Index.define :user, :with => :active_record do
>>>  # fields
>>>  indexes first_name, :sortable => true
>>>  indexes last_name, :sortable => true
>>>  indexes bio
>>>
>>>  # attributes
>>>  has created_at, updated_at
>>> end
>>>
>>> User.search('walt')
>>>  Sphinx Query (37.4ms)  SELECT * FROM `user_core` WHERE MATCH('walt') AND 
>>> `sphinx_deleted` = 0 LIMIT 0, 20
>>>  Sphinx  Found 0 results
>>> => []
>>>
>>> User.search('walter')
>>>  Sphinx Query (1.0ms)  SELECT * FROM `user_core` WHERE MATCH('walter') AND 
>>> `sphinx_deleted` = 0 LIMIT 0, 20
>>>  Sphinx  Found 2 results
>>>  User Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IN (1, 
>>> 3)
>>> ... record follows ...
>>>
>>> Why is it not stemming on my first name, and getting walt and walter 
>>> together in the index?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Walter
>>>
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