> Well, it's been a long time coming, but there's finally support for
> delayed deltas, using delayed_job (fittingly). It is an internal copy
> of dj, and I've not tested it with apps that also use the dj plugin,
> but it should play nicely. Please do test, though.

> How to make it work?

> In your define_index block:
> set_property :delta => :delayed

> To get the background task running:
> rake thinking_sphinx:delta
> or
> rake ts:delta

> I'm not convinced about the task name, so you're warned it may change
> (especially when deltas-by-timestamps is added - soon!).

> I've tested it on various Rails versions (including 1.2.6), and as far
> as I can tell, it works as it should. I've added cucumber features to
> test it too, so I'm pretty happy with how it runs. That said, would
> appreciate hearing how it works for everyone else :)

> Get the code from Github:
> http://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx/tree/master

> Enjoy

> --
> Pat
> e: p...@freelancing-gods.com    || m: +614 1327 3337
> w: http://freelancing-gods.com || t: twitter.com/pat
> discworld: http://ausdwcon.org || skype: patallan

> Oh, and the other step - not a problem for those already using
> delayed_job - is to create the delayed_jobs table:

> create_table :delayed_jobs, :force => true do |table|
>   table.integer  :priority, :default => 0
>   table.integer  :attempts, :default => 0
>   table.text     :handler
>   table.string   :last_error
>   table.datetime :run_at
>   table.datetime :locked_at
>   table.datetime :failed_at
>   table.string   :locked_by
>   table.timestamps
> end

> Cheers

> --
> Pat

> On 03/01/2009, at 1:05 AM, Pat Allan wrote:

>> Well, it's been a long time coming, but there's finally support for
>> delayed deltas, using delayed_job (fittingly). It is an internal copy
>> of dj, and I've not tested it with apps that also use the dj plugin,
>> but it should play nicely. Please do test, though.

>> How to make it work?

>> In your define_index block:
>> set_property :delta => :delayed

>> To get the background task running:
>> rake thinking_sphinx:delta
>> or
>> rake ts:delta

>> I'm not convinced about the task name, so you're warned it may change
>> (especially when deltas-by-timestamps is added - soon!).

>> I've tested it on various Rails versions (including 1.2.6), and as  
>> far
>> as I can tell, it works as it should. I've added cucumber features to
>> test it too, so I'm pretty happy with how it runs. That said, would
>> appreciate hearing how it works for everyone else :)

>> Get the code from Github:
>> http://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx/tree/master

>> Enjoy

>> --
>> Pat
>> e: p...@freelancing-gods.com    || m: +614 1327 3337
>> w: http://freelancing-gods.com || t: twitter.com/pat
>> discworld: http://ausdwcon.org || skype: patallan