The only catch with that is that my changes get clobbered every time I
deploy.  I suppose I could adapt the default rake task, though.

If nobody suggests anything simpler, perhaps I'll try going that
route.  Thanks, Clemens.


On Jun 21, 7:41 pm, Clemens Kofler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Brad,
>
> as far as I know, Thinking Sphinx itself can't generate configs for different 
> sources. I think you'll have to manually adapt the config and provide Sphinx 
> with the target database you've mentioned.
>
> I'm sure, Pat will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
>
> - C.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brad Heintz wrote:
> > I've inherited a Rails 2 app using Thinking Sphinx (1.3.11 on top of
> > Sphinx 0.9.8.1), deployed on EngineYard. The whole thing works
> > perfectly: Deploying the app rebuilds the config (I guess via rake
> > thinking_sphinx:configure) with sources for all the indexed models
> > &c. Indexing works, searches work. No complaints, until...
>
> > My problem is this: I'd like to include an outside data source. (A
> > WordPress blog running on a MySQL database on a different server.) Is
> > there a way to insert an external MySQL data source into the config
> > file when it gets built?
>
> > If I have to, I can use MySQL table-level replication to get the WP
> > data into my Rails database, wrap some dumb models around it, and
> > index those - but if this could be fixed at the TS config level, I'd
> > be really psyched.
>
> > Many thanks,
> > - Brad
>
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