Rake Tasks § Thinking Sphinx

Rake Tasks

Indexing

To index your data, you can run the following rake task:

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:index

There is also abbreviated versions, to save your fingers the few extra keystrokes:

  
rake ts:index  
rake ts:in

The output of this task will look roughly like this:

  
Generating Configuration to \\  
 /path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf  
indexer —config /path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf \\  
 —all  
Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)  
Copyright © 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file \\  
 ‘/path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf’…  
indexing index ‘article\_core’…  
collected 10 docs, 0.0 MB  
collected 0 attr values  
sorted 0.0 Mvalues, 100.0% done  
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done  
total 10 docs, 142 bytes  
total 0.101 sec, 1407.21 bytes/sec, 99.10 docs/sec  
indexing index ‘article\_delta’…  
collected 0 docs, 0.0 MB  
collected 0 attr values  
sorted 0.0 Mvalues, nan% done  
total 0 docs, 0 bytes  
total 0.010 sec, 0.00 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec  
distributed index ‘article’ can not be directly indexed; skipping.

This task, run normally, will also generate the configuration file for Sphinx. If you decide to make custom changes, then you can disable this generation running reindex instead.

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:reindex

If you’re using a version of Thinking Sphinx older than 1.3.10, then reindex doesn’t exist, but you can do the same thing by setting the INDEX_ONLY environment variable to true:

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:index INDEX\_ONLY=true

Generating the Configuration File

If you need to just generate the configuration file, without indexing (something that can be useful when deploying), here’s the task (and shortcuts) to do it:

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:configure  
rake ts:conf  
rake ts:config

Expected output:

  
Generating Configuration to \\  
 /path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf

Starting and Stopping Sphinx

If you actually want to search against the indexed data, then you’ll need Sphinx’s searchd daemon to be running. This can be controlled using the following tasks:

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:start  
rake ts:start  
rake thinking\_sphinx:stop  
rake ts:stop

Expected outputs:

  
searchd —pidfile —config \\  
 /path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf  
Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)  
Copyright © 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file \\  
 ‘/path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf’…  
Started successfully (pid 12928).

  
Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)  
Copyright © 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file \\  
 ‘/path/to/RAILS\_ROOT/config/development.sphinx.conf’…  
stop: succesfully sent SIGTERM to pid 12928  
Stopped search daemon (pid 12928).

Rebuilding Sphinx Indexes

When you make changes to your Sphinx index structure, you will need to stop and start Sphinx for these changes to take effect, as well as re-index the data. This is all wrapped up into a single task:

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:rebuild  
rake ts:rebuild

Handling Delta Indexes

If you’re using either the Delayed Job or Datetime/Timestamp delta approaches, you’ll need to run a task to manage the indexing. For the Delayed Job setup, the rake task runs constantly, processing any delta jobs (as well as any other normal jobs if you’re using the delayed_job plugin elsewhere in your application).

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:delayed\_delta  
rake ts:dd

For those using Datetime Deltas, you’ll need to run the following task at a regular interval - whatever your threshold is set to.

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:index:delta  
rake ts:in:delta

Checking your version of Thinking Sphinx

There is also a rake task for outputting the version of Thinking Sphinx you’re using.

  
rake thinking\_sphinx:version  
rake ts:version

  
Thinking Sphinx v1.1.16

Thinking Sphinx