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Enable/disable indexes - you may want to do this while migrating data.
ThinkingSphinx.define_indexes = false
Tells Thinking Sphinx that Sphinx is running on a different machine, and thus it can‘t reliably guess whether it is running or not (ie: the sphinx_running? method), and so just assumes it is.
Useful for multi-machine deployments. Set it in your production.rb file.
ThinkingSphinx.remote_sphinx = true
Check if Sphinx is running. If remote_sphinx is set to true (indicating Sphinx is on a different machine), this will always return true, and you will have to handle any connection errors yourself.