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

• 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 > 0.9.9 you need to append <tt>-beta</tt> or <tt>-release</tt> e.g. <tt>:version: 2.0.8-release</tt>
    :version: 0.9.8.1
    # index every hour at 9
    :index_cron:
      :minute: 9
    :extra:
      # these settings are loaded as if they were in your 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'