# Thinking\_sphinx indexing problem on production

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thinking-sphinx-indexing-problem-on-production/149401>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 24, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thinking-sphinx-indexing-problem-on-production/149401 "2008-09-24T13:57:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thinking-sphinx-indexing-problem-on-production/149401/1 "2008-09-24T13:57:31Z")

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Hello,  
I have been using Sphinx with Thinking\_sphinx plugin which works well on  
local development environment, but once I move it to production (shared  
host) I get this error and I’m not sure why

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [~/public\_html/linko/current/config]# rake  
thinking\_sphinx:index RAILS\_ENV=production  
(in /home/linkamed/public\_html/linko/releases/20080924112647)  
gcc: No such file or directory  
rake aborted!  
Expected  
/home/linkamed/public\_html/linko/releases/20080924112647/app/models/poll.rb  
to define Poll

any ideas?

Thanks,

Tam

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thinking-sphinx-indexing-problem-on-production/149401/2 "2008-09-24T14:18:09Z")

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On Sep 24, 12:57 pm, Tam K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hello,  
> I have been using Sphinx with Thinking\_sphinx plugin which works well on  
> local development environment, but once I move it to production (shared  
> host) I get this error and I’m not sure why

Expected /home/linkamed/public\_html/linko/releases/20080924112647/app/  
models/poll.rb to define Poll  
just means that something bad happened when loading poll. You’d get a  
better error message if you ran script/console and typed in  
Poll

Fred

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thinking-sphinx-indexing-problem-on-production/149401/3 "2008-09-24T23:47:55Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> On Sep 24, 12:57�pm, Tam K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Hello,  
> > I have been using Sphinx with Thinking\_sphinx plugin which works well on  
> > local development environment, but once I move it to production (shared  
> > host) I get this error and I’m not sure why
> 
> Expected /home/linkamed/public\_html/linko/releases/20080924112647/app/  
> models/poll.rb to define Poll  
> just means that something bad happened when loading poll. You’d get a  
> better error message if you ran script/console and typed in  
> Poll
> 
> Fred

Thanks Fred, that was the right thing to do and I realized that the  
problem is from plugin (validate\_date\_time)!:

> > Poll  
> > NoMethodError: undefined method `validates_date' for #<Class:0xb78a1da0> from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:264:in `retrieve\_connection’  
> > from  
> > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_specification.rb:78:in  
> > `connection' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1063:in `table\_exists?’  
> > from  
> > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1153:in  
> > `inspect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:154:in `to\_str’  
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:154:in `to_s' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:154:in `write’  
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:154:in `print' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:154:in `eval\_input’  
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:259:in `signal_status' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:147:in `eval\_input’  
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:70:in `start’  
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `start’  
> > from /usr/bin/irb:13

not sure why production is giving this error though! I tried on local  
host and it worked! Any ideas? maybe I should post new thread for this  
issue