I am lost on how to install Sphinx in the correct way to get

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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T16:37:53+00:00 2026-05-26T16:37:53+00:00

I am lost on how to install Sphinx in the correct way to get

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I am lost on how to install Sphinx in the correct way to get it running with my Rails application on a Windows 7 64x machine. I followed this thread: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=29437 where it says to set the PATH Variable but that did not work, it only caused my git bash path to get screwed up and disable ruby commands in it.

When I start the rails server I get:

Sphinx cannot be found on your system. You may need to configure the following
settings in your config/sphinx.yml file:
  * bin_path
  * searchd_binary_name
  * indexer_binary_name


For more information, read the documentation:
http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/advanced_config.html

My directory location is C:/Sphinx

But the config file sphinx.yml file doesn’t exist when I download the binary > http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/beta/

Win32 binaries w/MySQL+PgSQL+libstemmer+id64 support    2.0.1-beta  5.6M

Did anyone figure out how to get this working?

UPDATE 1:

Made the file sphinx.yml inside of my config/ folder of my Rails application and put this in their so far but still no luck:

config/sphinx.yml

    development:
       bin_path: "c:/Sphinx/bin"

UPDATE 2:

OK I reinstalled it and now get this error:

Generating Configuration to C:/myapp/config/development.sphinx.conf
rake aborted!
Invalid Database Adapter: Sphinx only supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, not ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLite3Adapter

So in order to run Thinking Sphinx I have to have MySql or PostgreSQL in development and not SQLite3?