Hi Nick

You *could* try scanning logs... it's a little hacky, and not sure of the best 
way to track it. You're welcome to give it a shot - I'd love to see how one 
would go about it - but at this point, there's other bugs and features which 
are higher priority for me with TS.

All that said, it's an interesting approach!

-- 
Pat

On 22/05/2010, at 11:43 AM, nruth wrote:

> Hi Pat
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. I see it's an issue with searchd being a
> daemon (whoops!).
> 
> I know a bare minimum about unix, but I assume it's being signalled by
> indexer & doesn't respond to it (so we don't know when it finishes).
> 
> However! Perhaps we could look for the log to be updated as in:
> 
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.030 2010] [68934] rotating indices (seamless=1)
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.042 2010] [68934] rotating index 'volume_core':
> success
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.048 2010] [68934] rotating index 'review_core':
> success
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.054 2010] [68934] rotating index 'author_core':
> success
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.060 2010] [68934] rotating index 'article_core':
> success
> [Sat May 22 02:35:41.060 2010] [68934] rotating finished
> 
> Also Aslak added a timeout trick to cucumber recently (0.7.3), could
> be useful here in cases where something goes awry.
> http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/commit/3dd8613930482c63875dd5f4a8fcef0a47a77d65
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 17, 9:25 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Nick
>> 
>> Unfortunately, it's not so much waiting for Sphinx to finish indexing - 
>> that's a blocking request anyway - it's more waiting for searchd to load in 
>> the index changes. Hence why it's a bit of guesswork.
>> 
>> I know it's not ideal, but I've not thought of a better way around it yet. 
>> I'd love suggestions, though :)
>> 
>> --
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 15/05/2010, at 8:05 AM, nruth wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi all
>> 
>>> Many thanks to Pat et al for the pointers getting TS going with
>>> cucumber, didn't take very long at all. I had some pre-TS scenarios
>>> which were disabled, so added the gubbins and started using them
>>> again, instant success.
>> 
>>> I wonder about the sleep statements though. My computer seems to be
>>> getting pretty medium-rare these days and I'm getting intermittently
>>> failing scenarios from the indexing - failures seem to crop up when
>>> the wind changes direction. I've increased the sleep period to
>>> compensate, but it's a fairly arbitrary number & increasing it across
>>> the board is wasteful over many executions of the feature set.
>> 
>>> A better solution would be if ThinkingSphinx::Test.index could return
>>> when sphinx has finished indexing, so the test waits for indexing to
>>> finish before running the next steps.
>> 
>>> Is this feasible, and patchable, or is there something in the way I'm
>>> not aware of?
>> 
>>> Regards
>> 
>>> Nick
>> 
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