Question

User model has defined indexes to be searched using ThinkingSphinx. However when I stop my searchd deamon, I would like my method to fail gracefully and not throw an error. Normally I do this by using a rescue block for catching exceptions. But in this case, it still throws the error and the puts statement is never executed.

def search_users(key)
  begin
    search_results =  User.search(key,options)
  rescue Exception
    puts "Hello World!!!"
    search_results = []
  end
  return search_results
end

Following is the error i get:

Riddle::ConnectionError (Connection to 127.0.0.1 on 3201 failed. Connection refused - connect(2)):

Is there any way out?

Answer 1

Solved it.

Add the :populate => true option to your search calls.

Normally, Thinking Sphinx lazily loads search results (allowing for
sphinx scopes and such) – but if you want the rescue to take effect,
then you’ll need to force the results to load immediately – hence the
:populate option.

Refer the link posted above for further reading.