Deploying Thinking Sphinx with Capistrano

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I’ve had a lot of issues trying to deploy ThinkingSphinx with Capistrano. This has been for a multitude of reasons. The following is my recipe for deploying and hopefully making it public will make a few people’s lives easier.

This assumes you are using the plugin, not the gem.

In your deploy.rb, add the following at the top:
require 'vendor/plugins/thinking-sphinx/lib/thinking_sphinx/deploy/capistrano'

Then, at the bottom add this:

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