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Thinking Sphinx

A Ruby connector between Sphinx and ActiveRecord.

External Resources

I am happy to provide support via email and the google group – but please do not contact me on Skype or other instant messaging systems about Thinking Sphinx issues.

Further Documentation, Support and Discussion

  • RDocs for the official repository
  • Thinking Sphinx Google Group

Video

  • Railscast #120

Books

  • Peepcode: Thinking Sphinx PDF

Blog Posts

  • Sphinx tag on Freelancing Gods
  • Rails Thinking Sphinx Plugin: Full Text Searching that’s Cooler than a Polar Bear’s Toenails
  • Thinking Sphinx in Arabic/Unicode
  • Thinking Sphinx on Windows
  • named_scope and Thinking Sphinx gotcha
  • Delta indexing with delayed_job
  • Location-based Search
  • Cucumber scenarios that depend on Sphinx
  • Integration testing with Cucumber, RSpec and Thinking Sphinx
  • Thinking Sphinx and Unicode
  • Thinking Sphinx Case Folding Configuration
  • Thinking Sphinx: Searching by Location and Keyword

Core Topics

  • Home
  • Getting Started
  • Installing Sphinx
  • Installing Thinking Sphinx
  • Rails 3 and Thinking Sphinx
  • An Introduction to Sphinx
  • Indexing
  • Searching
  • Rake Tasks
  • Testing
  • Upgrading
  • Support & External Resources

Advanced Topics

  • Advanced Sphinx Configuration
  • Common Questions and Issues
  • Delta Indexes
  • Facets
  • Excerpts
  • Geo-Searching
  • Sphinx Scopes
  • Deployment
  • Contributing to Thinking Sphinx

Thinking Sphinx and documentation is developed and maintained by Pat Allan, with notable support from a large list of contributors.

This site and logo was designed by the talented Ben Webster of Plus2.

  • RDocs
  • View the Source
  • Google Group
  • Pat on Twitter