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If you are using sphinx gem for search functionality in your rails application, here is a quick rundown of commands that you will need to install and setup sphinx server and rails plugin on remote server.

Download and installl Sphinx package:

# download from http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html
$ tar zxf <tar.gz file>
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

The rails app should already list gem dependency. Install the necessary gem on system:

# environment.rb:
config.gem 'freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx', :lib => 'thinking_sphinx'
$ sudo gem install freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx

Here are 2 rake commands to index the database for sphinx search. And to start the sphinx daemon when the app is running.

$ rake thinking_sphinx:index (have a cron job for this)
$ rake thinking_sphinx:start (start the daemon)

There is also the capitate gem that makes managing sphinx on remote server easier.

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