Have you re-indexed Sphinxand restarted the daemon since making those changes? 
If not, one task does it all: rake ts:rebuild

Cheers

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Pat


On 17/08/2012, at 17:34, frankphilips <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pat,
> 
> I took your advice and incorporated your exact code.  I've also read up on 
> attributes and fields and have fixed accordingly. However, now I'm getting 
> this error:
> 
> "index shruffle_core: sort-by attribute 'created_at' not found"
> 
> I do have has created_at in my model.What am I doing wrong now? Thanks for 
> the help!
> 
> -Frank
> 
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:03:56 PM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
> Hi Frank
> The .order method on models is for SQL queries, not Sphinx searches, so you 
> can't mix the two together. If you want to use sort_column and 
> sort_direction, then pass the string you're building with the :order option 
> (which it seems you're currently doing with :created_at):
> 
>   Shruffle.search params[:search], :order => "#{sort_column} 
> #{sort_direction}"
> 
> Also, I'd recommend reading up on the differences between attributes and 
> fields - you probably don't want/need price, org_percent or created_at to be 
> fields. Attributes are inherently sortable (indeed, when fields are marked as 
> sortable, Thinking Sphinx is just creating an attribute in the background to 
> fulfil that purpose).
> http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/sphinx_basics.html
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> Pat
> 
> On 16/08/2012, at 3:22 PM, frankphilips wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm a noob to Rails, and I need some help. In Railscast 240, Ryan talks 
> > about creating sortable table columns with ajax search: 
> > http://railscasts.com/episodes/240-search-sort-paginate-with-ajax
> > 
> > However when I try to combine Thinking Sphinx rather then using the 
> > standard search Ryan mentions, it breaks my sortable table columns. I'm 
> > sure there is a quick way to fix this. Please help! Thanks :)
> > 
> > Here's my code:
> > 
> > MODEL:
> > 
> > define_index do
> >           
> >           indexes :title, sortable: true
> >           indexes :desc, sortable: true 
> >           indexes email
> >           indexes :org, sortable: true
> >           indexes org_percent
> >           indexes :price, sortable:true
> >           indexes :city, sortable: true 
> >           indexes :created_at, sortable: true
> > 
> >           has created_at, updated_at
> > 
> >         end
> > 
> > CONTROLLER:
> > 
> > helper_method :sort_column, :sort_direction
> >  def index
> >    @shruffles = Shruffle.order(sort_column + ' ' + 
> > sort_direction).search(params[:search], :order => :created_at,
> >  :sort_mode => :desc)
> > 
> > APPLICATION HELPER:
> > 
> > def sortable(column, title = nil)
> >    title ||= column.titleize
> >    css_class = (column == sort_column) ? "current #{sort_direction}" : nil
> >    direction = (column == sort_column && sort_direction == "asc") ? "desc" 
> > : "asc"
> >    link_to title, {:sort => column, :direction => direction}, {:class => 
> > css_class}
> >          end
> > 
> > VIEW:
> > 
> > <%= hidden_field_tag :direction, params[:direction] %>
> > <%= hidden_field_tag :sort, params[:sort] %>
> > 
> > <table class="pretty">
> >           <tr align="left">
> >             
> >             <th><%= sortable "title" %></th>
> >             <th><%= sortable "price" %></th>
> >             <th><%= sortable "city"  %></th>
> >             <th><%= sortable "org", 'Non-Profit' %></th>
> >             <th><%= image_tag "ico-heart.png" %> <%= sortable 
> > "org_percent", 'Donation %' %></th>
> >             <th><%= sortable "created_at", 'Date' %></th>
> >           </tr>
> > 
> >             <% for shruffle in @shruffles %>
> > 
> >                   <tr>   
> >                     <td><%= link_to shruffle.title, shruffle %></td>
> >                     <td class="price"><%= 
> > number_to_currency(shruffle.price) %></td>
> >                     <td><%= shruffle.city %></td>
> >                     <td><%= shruffle.org %></td>
> >                     <td><%= shruffle.org_percent %>%</td>
> >                     <td><%= shruffle.created_at.strftime("%b %d, %Y") 
> > %></td>
> >                   </tr>
> >           <% end %>
> > </table>
> > 
> > -Frank
> > 
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