Question

I really need help installing Sphinx and getting it going.

I’m on rails 3 and I’m following these set of directions: http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/quickstart.html to install Sphinx.

Thinking Sphinx was easy to install since it’s a gem. However, the guide says I need to have both Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx installed to get started (Is this true?). I checked Ryan Bates’ railscast for Thinking Sphinx and he only installed the plugin and got started immediately.

Anyways, I installed Sphinx via MacPorts and here’s proof:

...
  --->  Configuring mysql5
  --->  Building mysql5
  --->  Staging mysql5 into destroot
  --->  Installing mysql5 @5.1.57_0
   The MySQL client has been installed.

...

--->  Installing sphinx @0.9.9_0+mysql5
--->  Activating sphinx @0.9.9_0+mysql5
--->  Cleaning sphinx

It automatically configured Sphinx with mysql5. I have both mySQL and POSTgreSQL.

Now the next step was to rake thinking_sphinx:index after setting up an index in my user model which looks like this:

  define_index do
   indexes year
   indexes major
   indexes books_buy
   indexes books_sell
   indexes facebook
   indexes restaurants
   indexes interests

   end

However, rake thinking_sphinx:index gave me this:

rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'thinking_sphnix:index'

and then

rake aborted!
no such file to load -- sqlite3

So I figured my database was configured on sqlite3 still. So I switched the gem to mySQL and edited my database.yml file to look like this:

# Switched over to mysql

# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
development:
  adapter: mysql5
  encoding: utf8
  database: sphinx_development
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password:
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

test:
  adapter: mysql5
  encoding: utf8
  database: sphinx_test
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password:
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

production:
  adapter: mysql5
  encoding: utf8
  database: sphinx_production
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: 
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

and I got these errors:

rake aborted!
Please install the mysql5 adapter: `gem install activerecord-mysql5-adapter` (no such file to load -- active_record/connection_adapters/mysql5_adapter)

and

    ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'activerecord-mysql5-adapter' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter, activerecord-nulldb-adapter, activerecord-odbc-adapter, activerecord-jdbc-adapter, activerecord-postgis-adapter
Tony-Ngs-MacBook-Air:sample_app TonyNg$ gem install activerecord-nulldb-adapter

Any tips would be generous and helpful. Would also be willing to switch to PostgreSQL if help lead provided. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to put either mysql or mysql2 as your adapter – and include either gem (same names as the adapters) in your Gemfile. I recommend mysql2, as it’s actively maintained – but keep in mind if you’re using Rails 3.0.x, then you must use a 0.2.x release of mysql2. If you’re on Rails 3.1, then use mysql2 0.3.x.