Moonshine_Sphinx

A plugin for Moonshine

A plugin for installing and managing sphinx for a Rails application using thinking_sphinx.

It handles:

• Ensuring sphinx is installed
• Generating a sane sphinx.yml for you
• Using God managing and monitoring searchd
• Adding capistrano hooks to restart searchd on deploy
• Optionally adding a cron job for running the indexer

moonshine_sphinx requires:

• At least revision cf2c44881e49633a8507149024e1f2dcbf63335e of moonshine
• thinking_sphinx installed and configured
• moonshine_god to be installed as a plugin
• moonshine_god can be disabled by setting :use_god: false in moonshine.yml

Instructions

• script/plugin install git://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine_sphinx.git

• script/plugin install git://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine_god.git

• rake moonshine:gems if you config/gems.yml if you're using thinking_sphinx as a gem

• Configure settings as needed:

# in config/moonshine.yml
    :sphinx:
      :version: 2.0.8
      # index every hour at 9
      :index_cron:
        :minute: 9
      :extra:
        # these settings are loaded as if they were in your thinking_sphinx.yml
        :address: 127.0.0.1
        :mem_limit: 256M

• Include the recipe in your Moonshine manifest: recipe :sphinx
• Include capistrano callback to restart sphinx after god restarts: after 'god:restart', 'sphinx:restart'

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