Question

I’m trying to set up Thinking Sphinx in my Rails 3 app, but I am getting a “Routing Error”.

I set up MySQL and installed Sphinx without error. My gemfile contains:

gem "riddle", "~> 1.5.0"
gem "thinking-sphinx", "~> 2.0.10"

These install without a problem.
My model contains:

define_index do
    indexes :name
    indexes acad_field
    indexes expertise
    indexes interests
    indexes experience
    indexes marital_status
    indexes email
    indexes place_of_birth
    indexes birthyear
    indexes hometown
    indexes current_residence
    indexes languages
    indexes nationalities
    indexes ethnicities_mom_dad
    indexes institution
    indexes program
end

and my index action in my controller contains:

def index
 @profiles = Profile.search params[:search]
 respond_to do |format|
   format.html # index.html.erb
   format.json { render :json => @profiles }
 end
end

This is what my routes look like:

match "profiles?search=:search", :to => "profiles#index"

When I try running a search by typing the search criteria URL directly into the browser, I get this error:

Routing Error

undefined method `define_index' for #<Class:0xb3ada670>

What do I need to do?

Answer 1

Running rake thinking_sphinx:rebuild fixed my “undefined method” problem.