Description

Installs and configures Sphinx search (searchd). Installation can by from source or package.

Requirements

This cookbook depends on the mysql and postgresql cookbooks.

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb for a full list.

Usage

MySQL

Here is an example role using MySQL with a package install

name "sphinx"
description "Sphinx search daemon (searchd)"

# List of recipes and roles to apply. Requires Chef 0.8, earlier versions use 'recipes()'.
run_list(
  "role[base]",
  "recipe[sphinx]",
)

# Attributes applied if the node doesn't have it set already.
default_attributes({
  'sphinx' => {
    'use_mysql'   => true,
    'use_package' => true
  }
})

# Attributes applied no matter what the node has set already.
#override_attributes()

History

0.6.2

• Resolved several items identified by foodcritic
• Fixed configuration flag for libstemmer (thanks @seanculver)

0.6.1

• Use install_path attribute as the --prefix for source installation
• Download files to the proper file_cache_path instead of /tmp
• Dynamically determine package_name based on platform, with manual override

0.6.0

• Made package version force attribute optional
• Added several required fields to metadata
• Rebuilt metadata.json
• Added recipe lines to metadata for OpsWorks (thanks @ryansch)
• Added lwrp for indexes and sources, searchd and indexer configs from attributes (thanks @makmanalp)

0.5.0

• Added package install option (thanks @RiotGames)

0.4.0

• Updated Download URL for sphinx source (thanks @RiotGames)

Maintainers

• @jesseadams
• @kesor