Any ideas why Thinking Sphinx Rake tasks are not running?

Question

I\'m finding that Thinking Sphinx sometimes errors out when I try to run its Rake tasks. Sometimes the tasks work fine, and sometimes I get errors like the one below.

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Answer 1

I guess after deploy by capistrano you didn't run rake thinking_sphinx:configure
it would generate sphinx config file in config/production.sphinx.conf

try add pidfile to config/sphinx.yml

production:
  ...
  pid_file: "/tmp/searchd.pid"

it will make sure to find pid of searchd to kill

and added following code to config/deploy.rb

namespace :my_tasks do
  task :generate_sphinx_config, :roles => [:web] do
    run "cd #{latest_release} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec rake thinking_sphinx:configure"
  end
end

....

after :deploy, "my_tasks:generate_sphinx_config"

to generate sphinx config file in each release folder