This document gives an overview of what is Sphinx itself and how to use in within Ruby on Rails. For more information or documentation, please go to www.sphinxsearch.com

Sphinx is a standalone full-text search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from an XML pipe.

Simplest way to communicate with Sphinx is to use searchd - a daemon to search through fulltext indices from external software.

You can create the documentation by running:

rake rdoc

You can always get latest version from kpumuk.info/projects/ror-plugins/sphinx

Dmytro Shteflyuk <kpumuk@kpumuk.info> kpumuk.info

Andrew Aksyonoff sphinxsearch.com/

Special thanks to Alexey Kovyrin <alexey@kovyrin.net> blog.kovyrin.net

This library is distributed under the terms of the Ruby license. You can freely distribute/modify this library.