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Installing Thinking Sphinx (Rails 2.3)

If you’re still stuck on Rails 2.3, then you can use a 1.4.x release of Thinking Sphinx. The latest of these is 1.4.14 - and it’s unlikely any more 1.4.x releases will appear. Install it like you would any other gem - either manually:

gem install thinking-sphinx -v "~> 1.4.14"

Or by adding it to your Gemfile:

gem 'thinking-sphinx', '~> 1.4.14'

Again, referring directly to the git respository is an option - please keep in mind that you’ll want to lock to a commit from the v1 branch.

gem 'thinking-sphinx', '~> 1.4.14',
  :git    => 'git://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx.git',
  :branch => 'v1',
  :ref    => '94c61e9d79'

If you’re setting your gem requirements in config/environment.rb, make sure you add it there too:

config.gem 'thinking-sphinx', :version => '1.4.14'

And make sure you add this line to your Rakefile to ensure you can access the Thinking Sphinx rake tasks:

begin
  require 'thinking_sphinx/tasks'
rescue LoadError
  puts "You can't load Thinking Sphinx tasks unless the thinking-sphinx gem is installed."
end

Installing Thinking Sphinx as a plugin is no longer recommended (and has not been for quite some time). In theory it should work for Rails 2.3 apps, but you’ll need to manually clone the v1 branch into vendor/plugins.

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