Day: July 16, 2013

Install thinking Sphinx in Ubuntu 13.04 and set up in Rails 3.2

Check sphinx is already installed in your system,

$ search

If you have already sphinx installed then it will show the sphinx version and other info, else it shows ubuntu information to install.

Download thinking sphinx from
here,

$ tar -xzf sphinx-2.0.8-release.tar.gz
$ cd sphinx-2.0.8-release/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Type, 

$ search

it will show the sphinx release and the other information.
Add the sphinx gem into your Gemfile

gem 'thinking-sphinx'

Do bundle install

$ bundle install

I assume you already made the model / controller code for sphinx. Else see this
Index all your records

$ rake ts:index -t

While indexing sphinx will generate the configuration file inside RAILS_ROOT/config/config/development.sphinx.conf

If you need to generate only configuration file not indexing you can use this command

$ rake ts:configure -t

Run sphinx searchd daemon

$ rake ts:start -t

You can stop sphinx searchd daemon

$ rake ts:stop -t

You can reindex so that sphinx will re index all records without creating a configuration file.

$ rake ts:reindex -t

Enjoy Sphinx searching!

Install Skype in Ubuntu 13.04

For 32 bit:

Install Dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-webkit

Download and install Skype

$ wget -O skype-linux.deb http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-lucid_4.2.0.11-1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i skype-linux.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Open the terminal and type

$ skype

Done.

Reference:
noobslab install skype

Ubuntu RubyMine Starting Error: ERROR: cannot start RubyMine. No JDK found.

Install JDK.
Search all the available jdk versions

$ apt-cache search openjdk

Install openjdk

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Verify if JDK is installed properly,

$ java-version

check $JAVA_HOME is empty, 

echo $JAVA_HOME

Set that (this is optional)

$ sudo echo "export JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/\"" >> ~/.bashrc

Reference:
www.mkyong.com