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Ben Orozco
Ben Orozco

Reputation: 4381

Does Heroku support Thinking Sphinx?

I would like to know if Heroku supports Sphinx (and its gem Thinking Sphinx)

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2767

Answers (5)

botbot
botbot

Reputation: 7359

Thinking Sphinx is supported on heroku but it costs 12 bucks a month, which sorta sucks.

Upvotes: -1

kbjerring
kbjerring

Reputation: 623

Looks like Heroku soon will support Sphinx through Flying-Sphinx

Upvotes: 11

Bashar Abdullah
Bashar Abdullah

Reputation: 1545

Tom solution seems possible... I personally moved to Sunspot Solr to deploy to Heroku more easily through Websolr. I love Sunspot, though I do face occasional weird results, especially that I need to reindex all the time. Websolr does have minor hiccups every now and then, but it's getting better.

Upvotes: 0

Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen

Reputation: 7200

You would need to launch an ec2 instance, and put all the text to search in SimpleDB, or S3, etc then run Sphinx on the EC2. Response would be fast as your heroku app is also on EC2. So the EC2 instance could only handle text searching, with the pretty web site on Heroku.

Upvotes: 5

corroded
corroded

Reputation: 21604

nope it doesn't

you can't actually use most text-based searches in heroku because you won't be able to have a writable directory

Upvotes: 2

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