Hi Pat,

Yes, this clears up some of the confusion. Thanks for replying back!

Cheers,
Siddhant

On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 1:05:31 PM UTC+1, Pat Allan wrote:
>
> Hi Siddhant 
>
> The search method is mixed into ActiveRecord::Base instead of each model 
> that has a search index - this is because with TS v3 there is now nothing 
> in the model that indicates there’s an index definition. This is part of 
> changes in TS v3 that were made for better performance in the development 
> environment (avoiding the behaviour in TS v1/v2 where it would load *all* 
> models to see which ones have Sphinx indices defined on every request). 
>
> So, this means it’s best not have search class methods on models. 
>
> As for the mixing scopes issue - you cannot use ActiveRecord scopes with 
> Sphinx queries, as one is SQL, and the other is SphinxQL (similar, but not 
> identical). I’d recommend using a Sphinx scope instead: 
> http://pat.github.io/thinking-sphinx/scopes.html 
>
> Hope this helps - let me know if there’s any further questions. 
>
> Cheers 
>
> — 
> Pat 
>
> > On 15 Mar 2015, at 9:17 pm, Siddhant Goel <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi everyone, 
> > 
> > I'm working on upgrading some legacy rails code, and in the process, 
> also updated TS from version 2 to 3. After upgrading though, I can't get 
> the searches to work properly. From the models I have, only one is using 
> Sphinx, while the others rely on database queries. 
> > 
> > The relevant code looks like the following - 
> https://gist.github.com/siddhantgoel/2dfb0e7c309a348e733f 
> > 
> > What I find strange is that ActiveRecord::Base.search is always 
> returning a ThinkingSphinx::Search object, even in the models which don't 
> have an index defined in app/indices. So in the non-indexed models 
> (contact.rb in this case), calling the search method throws a 
> ThinkingSphinx::NoIndicesError. And in applicant.rb, it throws a 
> ThinkingSphinx::MixedScopesError saying "You cannot search with Sphinx 
> through ActiveRecord scopes". Any ideas? Thanks! 
> > 
> > Siddhant 
> > 
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